These heroes of finance are like beads on a string when one slips off, all the rest follow.

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.