Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.

The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.

Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

The job of the Central Bank is to worry.

Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.