Let's get used to the fact that oil prices are going to stay high.

When the US increases its savings-and it must increase its savings-that will reduce aggregate demand in the world.

Almost only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades.

While it's hard to compare-and-contrast (the two trials), there's no question that prosecutors tried a more streamlined case this time.

This is not somebody who made some inadvertent false statement, ... This is a case where a jury convicted a CEO for lying to two different government agencies. That's a big deal.

In the last two years, the government has painstakingly climbed ladders, gotten different people along the way to plead guilty in order to go after someone at the higher rung. We're now at the top of the ladder.