I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.

Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don't pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.

Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.