George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
kind economic keynes
I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes
always-wrong
Market prices are always wrong.
perception divergence
There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
found-someone esperanto language
Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.
europe exhausted building
The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential.
risk investing portfolios
When you sell options, you get paid for assuming risk. That can be a profitable business, but it does not mix well with the risks inherent in a leveraged portfolio.
regulation investing minimum
I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation.
mistake america democracies-have
We in the United States are very often - since we are a democracy and we have national interests, we've often made the mistake that a democracy has to adopt America's interests, and that is a contradiction because a democracy basically is people deciding what their interests are.
weak-points crisis speculation
Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.
lifetime intention originals
My original intention was to spend the money in my lifetime.
clouds track poetry
The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and connotation, of overtones and undertones, of rebus and homophone, surround its motion, and break from it in the context of collision .. in Western poetry so much of the charged substance is previous poetry.
ecstasy
The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.
secret clients essentials
Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle to Croce, have laboured to exorcise or to conceal from themselves and their clients. This ontological, which is to say both primordial and essential axiom (or platitude) of ineradicable undecidability needs, none the less, to be closely argued.
significance translate decipher
To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.