I'm 40 Years Old. What

In The Life Of A Nation, Few Ideas Are More Dangerous Than Good Solutions To The Wrong Problems.

The Dirty Little Secret Is That Both Houses Of Congress Are Irrelevant. ... America's Domestic Policy Is Now Being Run By Alan Greenspan And The Federal Reserve, And America's Foreign Policy Is Now Being Run By The International Monetary Fund [imf]. ...when The President Decides To Go To War, He No Longer Needs A Declaration Of War From Congress.

There's A Great Debate Going On, You Know, On Whether We're Moving Toward A System Of Giant Oligopolies Or A System Of Multiples Of Small Businesses. Which Is It? I Think It's Both. In Every Sector Of The Economy, We Have Giant Brands That Are Trustworthy Guides To What's Good, And Then A Vast Number Of Small Groups, Many Of Them Project-based, Sometimes Folding And Re-creating, That Are Offering Products And Services Through Those Giant Global Brands.

I Mean, You Hear The Word 'globalization' Over And Over And Over Again. Globalization, Globalization, Globalization. Rarely Has A Word Gone So Directly From Obscurity To Meaninglessness Without Any Intervening Period Of Coherence.

In The '90s It Was Irrational Exuberance. Now It May Be Irrational Doom And Gloom.