And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.

Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have the government subsidize low-wage employment. The earned-income tax credit for low-income workers - which has been the object of proposed cuts by both President Clinton and congressional Republicans - has been a positive step in this direction.

I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.

I think Stockman is an interesting sort of amalgam.

Are you, or is someone you know, a gadget freak? If so, you doubtless know that Wednesday was iPhone 5 day, the day Apple unveiled its latest way for people to avoid actually speaking to or even looking at whoever they're with.

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

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