We tried to trademark proximity, but you can’t because it’s a word,
There was a rift in American life that was now coursing through American government. It wasn’t between Democrats and Republicans. It was between the people who were in it for the mission, and the peop...
The rapacity of companies with monopolistic power, and their ability to have their way with the government, got her thinking about the big American systems.
The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.
The only thing any of us can do completely on our own is to have the start of a good idea.
The old Soviet culture also left its former citizens oddly prepared for Wall Street in the early twenty-first century. The Soviet-controlled economy was horrible and complicated but riddled with looph...
The markets were now run by technology, but the technologists were still treated like tools. Nobody bothered to explain the business to them, but they were forced to adapt to its demands and exposed t...
The human mind was just bad at seeing things it did not expect to see, and a bit too eager to see what it expected to see.
The great thing about baseball players, from the point of view of personal hygiene, is how seldom they break a sweat.
The U.S. stock market now trades inside black boxes, in heavily guarded buildings in New Jersey and Chicago.
The American Home of the Future, it went without saying, would be controlled and monitored by a computer. The computer would permit the owner to enter into a new, fantastic relationship with his dwell...
That’s all right, says Billy. We’re blending what we see but we aren’t allowing ourselves to be victimized by what we see.
Making profits on Wall Street is a bit like eating the stuffing from a turkey. Some higher authority must first put the stuffing into the turkey. The turkey was stuffed more generously in the 1980s th...
Leverage buys you a glimpse of a prosperity you haven’t really earned.
Ignorance allows people to disregard the consequences of their actions. And sometimes it leads to consequences even they did not intend.
He was the person for whom the clock was always running out, the game was always tied, and the ball was always in his hands.
Donnie Green himself had been a trader at Salomon Brothers in the dark ages, when traders had more hair on their chests than on their heads.
Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake, but you're not supposed to question adults, or your coach or your teacher, because they make the rules. Maybe t...
Both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior removed from their websites the links to climate change data. The USDA removed the inspection reports of businesses accused...
After all, what is a marriage if not an agreement to distort one's perception of another, in relation to everyone else?