Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.

Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.

We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.

You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we’re going to see in the months and years ahead. But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.

The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.

The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.

Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight.