Banking is a branch of the information business.

When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That?

Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.

A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that seemed impossible a few years ago and which even now we can but partly imagine.

All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.

One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.

Information about money has become almost as important as money itself.