By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors. — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop. — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age. — James Buchan Copy Share Image
In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“I have found the funerals of friends less harrowing than the auctioning off of their property: a unique and loveable nature, already… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“Money is normative. So pervasive is its influence on our lives that it makes less moneyed ages incomprehensible, consigning them to barbarism… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality,… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the… — James Buchan Copy Share
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so… — James Buchan Copy Share
Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze… — James Buchan Copy Share
In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial… — James Buchan Copy Share
The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest… — James Buchan Copy Share
Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of… — James Buchan Copy Share
Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With… — James Buchan Copy Share
“My wages came to me not to satisfy any need-- mine were anyway private, affectionate, atrocious-- but to make my needs universal: to incorporate… — James Buchan Copy Share
For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza… — James Buchan Copy Share
Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader. — James Buchan Copy Share
Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required. — James Buchan Copy Share
Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes… — James Buchan Copy Share
Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and… — James Buchan Copy Share
Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New… — James Buchan Copy Share
