The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

Indias rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.

Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.

China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.

The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create.

Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.

Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

You're my best friend, my first and only love, and the most beautiful girl I've ever seen

You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.

I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten.

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

I was raised up believing I was somehow unique.

I say I drownin' in river. She don't look me like I'm crazy but say, If you just sit there the river gonna rise up drown you! Writing could be the boat carry you to the other side. (97)

Life isn't fair," Owen told her. "Get used to it.