An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market. - Ian Bremmer

The G-Zero isn't aspirational, it's analytic. Unfortunately, it's also where we are.

Everyone's talked about Bank of America and Citigroup and the rest being too big to fail, but no, no, no. The most important point...is that the US must be perceived to be too big to fail.

State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It’s about state dominance of economic activity for political gain.