Meaningful rules in the consumer credit market can accelerate economic recovery. Rules would increase consumer confidence and, more importantly, weed out all the tricks and traps that sap families of billions of dollars annually.

If you have a choice between buying something and paying down your credit card, pay down your credit card.

I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.

We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits - not cutting them.

Once kids get older, the list is longer. So here goes: Stay out of debt. Sometimes debt is necessary, to buy a home or to get an education, but not to buy a sweater or to eat out.

It`s one thing for Hillary Clinton to adopt some anti-Wall Street language to try to appeal to progressives.

Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.