We have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings.

Some years down the pike, we're going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes. It's going to be that we're actually going to take Medicare under control, and we're going to have to get some additional revenue, probably from a VAT. But it's not going to happen now.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

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

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).