People aren't looking at how they're doing, but rather at how their neighbors are doing and at their own place in society.

It's quite astonishing how much money people make in the hedge fund business and in the private equity field, and how well-off affluent families really are.

We Americans are not about to stop borrowing as long as they give us money for nothing.

Russia exists in the context of open global economy and is a part of it

It comes as no surprise that average Americans have a different perception of the economy than (US President) George W. Bush and his friends. They can play around with statistics as much as they want, but it's clear that we have an unfair distribution of wealth.

... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and online matches, there has been a mini-boom in chess interest among young people in many countries.

If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal immigration on nearly the scale that we do.