We all use cash in our everyday life, but we don't use hundred-dollar bills. We're not using 500-euro notes. And yet these account for mountains of cash out there. I think they're being used in tax evasion and by criminals of all types.

There has been a noticeable decline in the labor factor in all wealthy countries in the past 20 years. The rich are getting richer, but those at the lower end aren't moving ahead as quickly as the capitalists.

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

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

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

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

Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague.