The Ryan plan isn't a budget. It's the last will and testament of the Republican party.

I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy, including gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries.

A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.

Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.

In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were to take the presidency and both houses of Congress. Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan have no plan to take on Wall Street, the Fed, the military-industrial complex, social insurance or the nation’s fiscal calamity and no plan to revive capitalist prosperity - just empty sermons.

I think everybody in this generation, and I'm the leading edge of the baby boom - I was born in 1946 - has benefitted from a 30-year explosion of debt, which created temporary but unsustainable economic prosperity and a financialization of the system through lower, and lower, and lower interest rates that has created massive rewards to speculation but not real investments so I benefitted from it. Almost everyone who has been in the market has benefitted but they didn't earn it.

The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves.