I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

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

There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr. Obama’s mistakes but the scorched-earth opposition of Republicans, who have done everything they can to get in his way - and who now, having blocked the president’s policies, hope to win the White House by claiming that his policies have failed.

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

Not all private equity people are evil. Only some.

If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist.