If you don't have a set of principles that you can explain for what you are doing, then how can anybody know what you're going to do next?

- David Wessel

If the government can't get the economy moving again, they have a lot of fundamental problems.

- David Wessel

Chinese don't really believe in markets. They like stability, they like control.

- David Wessel

At some point, people may decide that the U.S. stock market has fallen enough. After all, the U.S. economy seems to be getting better, that what happ…

- David Wessel

I think it's hard to understand in economics. It's easier to understand on psychology.It's a kind of panic or a sense that the world economy is just …

- David Wessel

I think the Chinese are really amateurs when it comes to running markets.

- David Wessel

There is also a concern that there is a lack of demand of oil. And so when commodity prices fall, it's good if you happen to be a consumer, but it's …

- David Wessel

I think the one thing that's going on here is that people are saying, uh-oh, the Chinese economy might be slowing more than we thought and the govern…

- David Wessel

There is the fact that - people have had a lot of confidence that the Chinese leadership could fix what is wrong with their economy so it wouldn't ha…

- David Wessel