Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.

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.

Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Workers earned more as economies grew.

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.

Russia depends on natural resources way too much. Russian economy is not diversified enough

Workers are not being exploited. But if their share of growth doesn't increase, this could be a potential cause of social tension worldwide.

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.