“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.

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.

As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn’t prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn’t have to beg him for financial support.

We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.

Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.

History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.