“The good husbands understand and offer to help. “All you have to do is ask” they say. But even helpful husbands have to be thanked, their contributions acknowledged, credit given.”

When you combine wife, mother, career and all, each role become the perfect excuse for avoiding the worst aspects of the other.

Traditionally, marriage involved a kind of bartering, rather than mutual inter-dependence or role sharing.

Being busy and being seen to be busy lets you off the hook. Buys you a way out of all aspects of your many roles you secretly despiselike cleaning cupboardsor entertaining your husband’s business friends.

Women hope men will change after marriage but they don’t; men hope women won’t change but they do.

The truth is despite the hard work and juggling required to keep the different facets of the frantic life afloat, the “superwoman”has one marvelous compensation.

Husbands financially and economically supported wives, while wives emotionally, psychologically and socially supported husbands. He brought home the bacon, she cooked it. He fixed the plumbing, she the psyche.

The basic aggregate measure of gearing or leverage is telling us that today’s advanced economies’ operating systems are more heavily dependent on private sector credit than anything we have ever seen before.

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.

Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.

The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.

I think we should give them all the credit in the world. They want to know the truth.

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.

I think, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don’t sense to be discriminatory in any way.