Any Informed Borrower Is Simply Less Vulnerable

Excessive Optimism Sows The Seeds Of Its Own Reversal.

If We Allow Terrorism To Undermine Our Freedom Of Action, We Could Reverse At Least Part Of The Palpable Gains Achieved By Postwar Globalization. It Is Incumbent Upon Us Not To Allow That To Happen.

There Is No Evidence That The Business Cycle Has Been Repealed.

What We Have Found Over The Years In The Marketplace Is That Derivatives Have Been An Extraordinarily Useful Vehicle To Transfer Risk From Those Who Shouldn't Be Taking It To Those Who Are Willing To And Are Capable Of Doing So.

At The Risk Of Some Oversimplification, If The Skill Composition Of Our Work Force Meshed Fully With The Needs Of Our Increasingly Complex Capital-stock, Wage-skill Differentials Would Be Stable, And The Percentage Changes In Wage Rates Would Be The Same For All Job Grades.