Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.
Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.
We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders. . . In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.
The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it
In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.
If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you're going to have a problem. This isn't a stable system.
Instability mostly comes from the interface between the fact that the banks (or shadow banks) can create credit, money, and purchasing power in infinite quantities if we don't constrain them, and the fact that credit is primarily created to fund the purchase of urban real estate and land, which is somewhat fixed in supply.
The Globe reports that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il raises money by selling fake Viagra pills. What it is about this guy? None of his missiles seem to launch.
We need to embrace the differences between our cultures and love them.
Speeches and me don't get along sometimes. It is kind of like putting a tie too tight on my neck. I'm going to do whatever feels right.
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.