...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

Some years down the pike, we're going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes. It's going to be that we're actually going to take Medicare under control, and we're going to have to get some additional revenue, probably from a VAT. But it's not going to happen now.

The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive.

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

Simple doesn't mean stupid. Thinking that it does, does.

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.