Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis but refuse to die. The most prominent zombie is the insistence that low taxes on rich people are the key to prosperity.

If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.

We have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings.