We're not just going to see mid-sized banks go under in the next few months, we're going to see a whopper.

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.

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

The problem - at least in the United States - is not that people can't find jobs. The problem is that they're no longer finding jobs that provide them with dignity and decent social status.

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.

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

The assertion that everyone benefits simultaneously from free trade is simply incorrect.