Ron Chernow

The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.

A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.

By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.

In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But after 1400? Nihil.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.