Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market Fraud," January 1999). But I've been interrupted these last few months. It deals with all of the things we do, in an innocent way, to cover up the truth.

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.

The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both, and the latter get far more than they need...But could anything seriously be done about it?

This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.

Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.