That is, many times we're not risking our own money, we're risking somebody else's money, or maybe that someone is going to back stop or downside, but we still get the upside.

There are a lot of ways that investment banking models work, but these risks are not internalized by the people that are taking them.

Well if you've got information about a company, or you believe that a company is undervalued, you can go out and buy their stock and you can make some profit on it.

I'd like to see a little more action on the energy side of things. I've been pushing for some kind of a carbon tax for years, and it seems to me we've had lots of opportunities to do it.

A lot of ambitious code has been written into the law for those and we will have to see if it actually works, if we have another example of a big financial institution going bankrupt.

If you pay attention to where your exposures are, you might tend up buying credit default swaps against a variety of people that you - companies that you deal with.

Credit default swap gives you something to do. You can buy some credit default swaps from them to protect yourself against the bankruptcy of people who owe you money.

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?

All topics should be studied through the lens of the Gospel.

Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself.

I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.

I have no-fail chemistry. A guy turns me on, he's the wrong one for me.

You never really realize how many people care about you until they all turn out to support you.

so pRetty i hAd to Eat hiM

When the time is gone, you can never get it back.

Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.