The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.

For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

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

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

It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.