The Iraq War is largely about oil.

This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

But rules cannot substitute for character.