There's not only a social value that's at stake, there's a self-interest involved,

[Increased interest rates might also mean a smaller pay raise as well as a more gradual increase in the value of your investments. But slower may be surer.] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, people were getting 10 percent pay raises, ... But housing prices were going up 12 to 15 percent, and so were cars.

Both private equity firms and strategic chemical buyers should have an interest. There could be even more value in a breakup of the six business segments.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.

The volatility of international equity, interest rate and currency markets has the potential to significantly alter the value of the funds' assets.