Obamacare is socialism? Nope - as insurance companies vie to sell new policies, competition within private industry is growing rapidly, with the number of participating insurers growing by 26 percent between 2014 and 2015, and the number of products they offer growing by 66 percent.

Until his dying days, Steve Jobs could not only predict the direction the marketplace would be heading, but help drive it there.

A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion.

There have been times that I have found myself in places, and I don't know how I got there, and I don't actually know where I am.

Some financial advisers say anyone who may move in less than seven years should not take out a reverse mortgage.

Money talks, and when it starts to say goodbye, humans listen and act accordingly.

We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.

The motto of the old order in the City of London was, 'My word is my bond,' but the financial crisis revealed a culture quite alien to that heritage. The stewards of people's money were revealed to have been speculators with it.