The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butthead.

You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation.

When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will, to bring it down. And, it might be painful.

Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky.

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).

There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr. Obama’s mistakes but the scorched-earth opposition of Republicans, who have done everything they can to get in his way - and who now, having blocked the president’s policies, hope to win the White House by claiming that his policies have failed.

Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.