The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic.

You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.

There does seem to be some evidence that as people get older, they procrastinate less, perhaps because they feel the pressure of time more.

I tend to have a hard time working on pieces long before they're due. That's why I think the fact that I write a column is really good for me - the column has to be done, and there's no getting around it.

Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you'll be thin for life.

In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.

The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.