There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

You and I and almost all Americans are beneficiaries of the new economy. But we are also losing parts of our lives to the new economy - aspects of our family lives, our friendships, our communities, ourselves.

Regardless of how you interpret the facts, you have to come to the conclusion that inequality is widening in the US and in almost every other country.

If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.

The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs, but it doesn't consider all the other things that are inflating far, far faster than food prices.

In a world where routine production is footloose...competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away.