Augusto Nunes: O petróleo é nosso, mas a conta bancária é deles, diria Millôr

Everyone should have figured by now why the economy is in such turmoil. If you are trying to figure it out let me submit to you the reason is because we, as in man as a whole and in particular top executives, have gotten away from biblical principles of purpose and stewardship and have put on a nature of greed.

It was not a lesson Lawrence Summers mastered with great ease. But after nearly a decade working beside Alan Greenspan, and having watched his own tenure as President of Harvard cut short by a phrase that slipped from brain to mouth, Summers, director of the President’s National Economic Council, has become a restrained public man.