The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.