Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

You can have somebody living next door to you and you can live in a completely different world from that person, which is definitely something we've never experienced before. So I think just because of the media landscape and the way we get our information now, we're more atomized and isolated from each other than ever before.