A core group of the world's leading economies need to come together and hammer out an understanding.

Exchange rate understandings are of little use on their own.

How can the United States preserve its financial and security leadership role when it conducts itself with such ineptitude and such disregard for the consequences for the world?

If you step back and think about it, just a little over two years ago, in 2009, it was not surprising at all to see Chinese exports growing at a 30-plus percent clip.

What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced, and overrun with money from corporations and billionaires, a wounded republic is on its death bed, gasping for life.

Just because you have checks in the checkbook doesn't mean that you have money in the bank, and Washington has failed to understand that.

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

I only make movies to finance my fishing.