We still have quite a few economic speakers that everyone wants to listen to.

It does look like he's leaning more toward their status quo of raising rates at a measured pace, which would imply that they are going to go at September's meeting.

I don't doubt that people are probably going to these Web sites. I think the markets are so volatile, they are going to act on anything at this point.

One or two pieces of data aren't going to change the entire trend. Investors have lost so much money, particularly this year, that if they can take some profits they're going to.

We live in this era that has benefited from the Industrial Revolution, and we live with a kind of luxury and plenty that even all but the poorest of Americans live with a kind of sensuousness that was unimagined by medieval kings. But in order to get to this point, a lot of people had to suffer in really terrible ways.

I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research.