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.

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

When Mikolay and Julia are not at school, they usually go exploring and adventuring. Mikolay’s and Julia’s mummies are both witches and are in charge of fixing things.

The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.

I don't see myself going back to blonde outside of work though. I really like the red.

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.

In a lifetime of mistakes, you two are the greatest things that have ever happened to me.

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any.

I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.