If You Get Beyond The Political Rhetoric

We Ought To Be Opening Up Our Borders To Skilled Labour From All Parts Of The World Because [the State Of The World Is As Follows: ] If We Were To Do That We Would Increase The Supply Of Skilled Workers That Our Schools Have Been Unable To Create And As A Consequence Of That We Would Lower The Average Wage Of Skills And Reduce The Degree Of Income Inequality In This Country.

I Believe That The General Growth In Large [financial] Institutions Have Occurred In The Context Of An Underlying Structure Of Markets In Which Many Of The Larger Risks Are Dramatically -- I Should Say, Fully -- Hedged.

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.

It Is Decidedly Not True That "nice Guys Finish Last," As That Highly Original American Baseball Philosopher, Leo Durocher, Was Alleged To Have Said.

Regulators Have Not Been Able To Achieve The Level Of Future Clarity Required To Act Pre-emptively. The Problem Is Not Lack Of Regulation But Unrealistic Expectations. What We Confront In Reality Is Uncertainty, Some Of It Frighteningly So...