”Nothing important comes with instructions,”

James Richardson

“In the short term, the stock market is a voting machine; in the long term, it’s a weighing machine.”

Benjamin Graham

“Institutions take credit for producing people they have not managed to suppress.”

Leslie Stephen (father of Virginia Woolf and first Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography)

Radio 4’s Today programme, in a lovely gesture, left the last word to Stephen Hawking.

”This is the president’s vision. My function, really, as an economist is to try to provide the underlying analytics that confirm his intuition. And his intuition is always right in these matters.”

Evidence-based policymaking, courtesy of Peter Navarro, Trump’s Trade Advisor as told to Bloomberg.

“Some hidden percentage of what you are seeing online is not commentary from real people, but bought-and-paid-for, computer-generated propaganda”¹

Maria Bustillos

”We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”

Justice Louis Brandeis

“Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”

Mae West. Wonderful woman.

”Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive”

William F. Buckley Jr