People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.

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.

The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for.

Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy.

Now, it’s true that some of the protesters are oddly dressed or have silly-sounding slogans, which is inevitable given the open character of the events. But so what? I, at least, am a lot more offended by the sight of exquisitely tailored plutocrats, who owe their continued wealth to government guarantees, whining that President Obama has said mean things about them than I am by the sight of ragtag young people denouncing consumerism.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

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.