Not all private equity people are evil. Only some.

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.

I've always believed in expansionary monetary policy and if necessary fiscal policy when the economy is depressed.

Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness and special interests. At this point we're talking about a state of mind that takes positive glee in inflicting further suffering upon the already miserable.

Asset bubbles have happened even without not-so-easy money. And, in a depressed economy, where alternative uses of money are not great, people are going to bid up the prices of profitable corporations and stuff like that.

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

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.