Because Bankers Measure Their Self-worth In Money,

Viewed From A Distance, Or Through The Eye Of The All-knowing Ceo Of The Universe, The Crash Of 2008 Followed The Usual Pattern. A Long-lived Boom Driven By Cheap Credit, Going Back As Far As 1982 (though Subject To Interruptions In The Mid-1980s And 1990s, And In 2001), Came To Grief Because Of A Rise In The Cost Of Borrowing Money.

Whatever Else It Was, Adolf Hitler's Short-lived Regime Was Also A Colossal Industrial Process By Which The Wealth And Productive Power Of Much Of Europe Was Wrenched From Its Normal Purposes And Converted Into A Machine For Killing.

What Holds An Arab Leader In Power Is A Mixture Of Violence And Prestige. Both President Assad And King Hussein Were Felt To Have Defended Arab Interests Against The World. That, In The End, Is More Important Than What They Wear On Their Head.

Almost All Novels Are Improved By Cutting From The Top. On Their First Pages, Authors Parade Those Favourite Effects Which Disgust The Impartial Reader.

A Century Ago, Petroleum - What We Call Oil - Was Just An Obscure Commodity; Today It Is Almost As Vital To Human Existence As Water.