“Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.”

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

We’re not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan

Brick and mortar businesses – and the communities that depend on them – cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

If we’re going to preach about democracy we’re going to have to make difficult decisions.

I want to be financially secure by the time I have kids.

More financial instability will introduce more uncertainty all down the line.

The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.

1000 percent or more of GDP, so that every economy starts to have financial systems that resemble recent cases like Switzerland, Ireland, Iceland, or Cyprus. That might be a very fragile world to live in.

If we have moved back to a regime of regular financial crises – like the one we had from the 1870s to the 1930s.

Non-trivial understanding of the financial sector, credit, and the banking system.

In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all.

Whether for efficiency or profitability – can lead to disasters in the long term in financial, ecological, political, social, and spiritual spheres.