I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.