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

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

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

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

So, very early reports are that Obamacare exchanges are, as expected, having some technical glitches on the first day - maybe even a bit worse than expected, because it appears that volume has been much bigger than predicted. Here’s what you need to know: this is good, not bad, news for the program... Lots of people logging on and signing up on the very first day... is an early indication that it’s going to be fine, that plenty of people will sign up for the first year of health reform.

Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much.

The important thing to understand is that the case for pollution control isn't based on some kind of aesthetic distaste for industrial society. Pollution does real, measurable damage, especially to human health.