“As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this s...” — Thomas Frank Quote

As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.

Whereas all liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think.

Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.

Thanks to a deal finalized in 2008, Chicago's parking meters will be operated for the next 75 years by a group of investors put together by Morgan Stanley, including the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.