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Piketty's book is the first step toward a new “science” of economics.

Even a draw at this point would be unparalleled success for a President in Barack Obama's position.

We always think of politics as being a leading indicator of change, but it is in fact a lagging indicator....

The transformation President Obama has begun in world markets, aimed ultimately at addressing the most potent threat to our survival...

While Jefferson sought limited government, he also sought a limited society, and a limited economy. It's wonderful rhetoric, but it...

What comes through history first as tragedy can reappear, with the lesson learned, in the form of farce.

Unless Americans are willing to put aside cynicism for action, unless we reject the false choices of the oligarchs, then...

The productivity of every man and woman, their ability to do what cheap computers and cheap machines can’t do, is...

Austrian economics, like Karl Marx' communism, is faith-based economics. It ignores economic evidence, its acolytes spending all their time rejecting...

This is our challenge, maximizing the value of our human capital, which in the Age of the Internet is the...