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

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

The economic expansion that began in 2001, while it has been great for corporate profits, has yet to produce any significant gains for ordinary working Americans. And now it looks as if it never will.

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

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

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.