I'm very lucky to be able to work in print and radio. I'm very lucky to be able to work at a time when finance and economics are really important. And the number of people who tell finance and economic stories in a kind of accessible storytelling way, there's much more demand than there is supply.

I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy.

А weekly column is really tough.

The New York Times is the greatest media company around, arguably, and the people at the New York Times know a lot more about making a giant successful media company than I do.

Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved.

It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.

I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure education, it's shocking that we [the americans] are not compelled to learn the book, which is the source of our language, our common stories, our political structure, our conflicts.