American - Journalist | 1958 -
Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that, in essence, you're telling the middle class, 'Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.'
Timothy Noah
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You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.
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Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise.
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What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience.
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When businesses affirmatively like regulations, that's when to reach for your wallet.
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The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined.
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Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.
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Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands.
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The $100 bill may be America's most successful export.
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The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value.
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The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congress to make it illegal to extend such loans to members of the military. But civilians remain fair game.
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Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.
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