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I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.

The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.

The breakdown of the American family's having a disastrous impact on our economy.

The economy is designed to serve the individual.

Rather than just saying, like, 'Your economy is the be all and end all,' I go back to my three roots that I've often said about this being best country for business, the best to raise a family in, and the best to grow old in with a sense of dignity and respect.

We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance.

Unlike economics, whose sole preoccupation in our finance-obsessed era is the near-term profit motive, history offers a way to place our tiny lifespans in a narrative that spans dozens of generations - perhaps even reaching into a future where capitalism is no longer our dominant form of economic organization.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

The connection has been lost between the country's direction, especially with regard to the way in which the economy has been run, and the citizen.