New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.

Quote by William E Geist

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Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global...

Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global...

Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: Open...

Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: Open...

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so...

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so...

Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.

Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make...

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make...

As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play...

As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play...

I think we're not going to preserve Fannie and Freddie in anything like their current...

I think we're not going to preserve Fannie and Freddie in anything like their current...

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by...

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by...

Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.

Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting...

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting...

Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.

Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for...

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for...

Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and...

Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and...

In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability...

In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability...

Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I...

Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I...

Financial crises require governments.

Financial crises require governments.

And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the...

And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the...

Americans can eat garbage, provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup, mustard, chili sauce, Tabasco...

Americans can eat garbage, provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup, mustard, chili sauce, Tabasco...

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is...

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is...

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff...

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff...

Dear teacher, I talk no matter where I am. Moving my seat will not help.

Dear teacher, I talk no matter where I am. Moving my seat will not help.