As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway.

This economy doesn't work well without the lubrication of credit and trust.

I would say it's more important who the treasury secretary is than who the vice president is. If you want to have a debate here, I'd like a debate between potential treasury secretaries than the vice presidential debate.

I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.

By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.