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In Rising Financial Markets, The World Is Forever New. The Bull Or Optimist Has No Eyes For Past Or Present, But Only For The Future, Where Streams Of Revenue Play In His Imagination.

By Pouring Money And Goods Into Devastated Regions, Foreign Aid Workers Sometimes Compound The Disruption And Debauch The Survivors.

Bulls Don't Read. Bears Read Financial History. As Markets Fall To Bits, The Bears Dust Off The Dutch Tulip Mania Of 1637, The Banque Royale Of 1719-20, The Railway Speculation Of The 1840s, The Great Crash Of 1929.

One Of The Admirable Features Of British Novelists Is That They Have No Scruple About Setting Their Stories In Foreign Settings With Wholly Foreign Personnel.

If Good History Is Dispassionate History, It Must Naturally Wait Until The Passions Of The Period Subside.