You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh….

If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich….

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies..

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 ….

It’s not about the budget; it’s about the power...So will the attack on unions succeed? I don’t know. But anyone who cares about retaining government….

Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy..

Our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies - but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, i….

[I]f you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama, seven left office with a deb….

The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network ….

Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to take better care of your fellow cit….

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

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..

Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias..

Not all private equity people are evil. Only some..

The economic expansion that began in 2001, while it has been great for corporate profits, has yet to produce any significant gains for ordinary worki….

Congress has always had a soft spot for "experts" who tell members what they want to hear, whether it's supply-side economists declaring that tax cut….

Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I c….

However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is some assur….

Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influence….

By rescuing the financial system without reforming it, Washington has done nothing to protect us from a new crisis, and, in fact, has made another cr….

We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be..