This statement is by Eric Maskin, a past winner of the Nobel Prize in economics. He made it at a recent conference at Mercatus. I'm assuming that the author of the article in which this statement is quoted, Tim Cavanaugh, quoted him correctly.
Google "income inequality" and you will find almost 9 million references. Every day seems to bring new reports on the magnitude or the growth of U.S. income inequality. These reports often include claims that middle-class incomes have been stagnant for two or more decades, implying a link between the two.
On Wednesday, October 8, 2014, at 7:30 p.m., Stanford kicked off the new speaker series, The Security Conundrum, with General Michael Hayden’s talk entitled “Inside the NSA.” Hayden was the first principal deputy director of national intelligence (2005 – 2006) and director of the National Security Agency (1999 – 2005).
At his confirmation hearing in 2009, Senator Lamar Alexander famously told Arne Duncan that “President-elect Obama has made several distinguished cabinet appointments, but in my view of it all, I think you are the best.” Duncan had already made statements indicating a willingness to embrace charter schools and break with the unions over teacher evaluations – sentiments not typically expressed by Democratic secretaries of education.
In the days leading up to the 2010 midterm elections, an occasion when voters sent a message of rebuke to President Obama and his political party, the decidedly purple state of Colorado was too close to call.
Michael Hayden made no apologies for National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, admitting that the NSA steals information from citizens to keep them safe, in his revealing talk about the NSA to the Stanford community.
