If the price of everything is going down, that's going to include wages as well. People will have an incentive to sit on their cash and not spend it.

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.

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin.

Pray in the spirit when you call on the Lord to show you your calling

...Sigerius realized that every academic looked like every other academic." - Bonita Avenue, p.49

...[M]en are put in a sort of guard-post, from which one must not release one's self or run away...

I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.

If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They shouldbe a comfort and a protection.

An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.

He who loves not flowers, has lost all love and fear of God.

We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.

There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.