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

I think it was seen as a symptom that the Chinese leadership may be really scared about their economy.Why would you want to depend more on exports if…

- David Wessel

Nobody really knows what the market is going to do, but it sure looks like we are going to have a lot more volatility.

- David Wessel

I think what the Fed fears is that, if Donald Trump gets big tax cuts and big spending increases that take effect right now, when the economy is clos…

- David Wessel

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

- 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 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

The only reason you would want your currency to fall, if you could control it, is in order to get more exports.

- David Wessel