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Markets work when people can evaluate the prices and risks of different products, then pick the ones that work best for them. But when the terms of the deal are hidden, competition doesn't work. And customers aren't the only ones who are hurt.

There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.

People are realistic enough to appreciate what the market values of different people are.

Markets need morals.

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

Markets are a good thing, and they are the best way of ensuring we have fairness.

There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air.

When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.

The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.

People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.