My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do?

Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.

The risks facing hedge funds are non-linear and more complex than those facing traditional asset classessuch risks are currently not widely appreciated or well-understood

Labor is getting more expensive and technology is getting cheaper.

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.

I heard your whispered fantasies so clear Softly told in my earI opened my eyes you weren't thereSo real my dream, I was so awareBut we'll meet again so certainlyIn our whispered fantasy

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.

Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.

I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.

Yes I'm a worker, but I'm working on what I'm passionate about and what I believe in not what someone else is passionate about!

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.

I love to improvise when it's appropriate and encouraged by a producer.