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

There's one thing that the Fed has been really good at cracking down on, and that's inflation.

When stock prices are rising, it's called ''momentum investing''; when they are falling, it's called ''panic.''

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

Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful.

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.

The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.