Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

Corporate welfare isn't necessarily a bad thing.

One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.

I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions.

If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.

In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'