A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.

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

In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.

Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.