I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society.

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.

A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a housing bubble

Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is.

So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.

There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

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

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.

If you want to understand opposition to climate action, follow the money.

Honor LostAmbulant sunshine piercedthe soot covered glass ~the feeble man wandered byin this ritual morning pass ...

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

The nation is marching along a permanently high plateau of prosperity

I look at the universe and I know there's an architect.

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

Unfortunately something always has to go by the wayside.

The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

You are more powerful than you think.