I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.

You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being in opposition to one another. I never have.

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest, and entrepreneurs to innovate and create new markets.

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.