The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.

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

In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market - the executives would get to loot their own firms once, then they'd be looking for jobs again.

The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.

You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again.

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