Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.

What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.

American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.

The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.

The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual, I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages have not moved in tandem.

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

You know what happened to her, right?

What silence rules the ghostly hoursThat guard the close of human sleep!(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

Christmas used to be a good "idea" 'til somebody came up with the concept of giving wrapped up presents to each other... :-)

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West

In the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense, you've just described hell.

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

Whenever I am with energetic young people, I feel like a recharged battery.

When we're binging, we do not think about death. We just think about how good it tastes.

We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.

It's immoral to ask people to risk their life.