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

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.

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

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

Labor is getting more expensive and technology is getting cheaper.

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

Mentoring is passion for skills and knowledge-transfer to young people

What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.

Greed is a suit that’s tailor made: it finds a way to fit every lifestyle, no matter how much or how little you earn.

Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us up snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy."

You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.

Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

About the prophecy that Rachel did at the end of "The Last Olympian," Percy Jackson will participate this prophecy, along with Annabeth? Sorry for spelling errors