It's powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.

A lot of people think that regulations bring higher costs, but regulation is also about making sure that someone doesn't get to beat out the competition because they're dumping filth in the river or spewing poisons in the air.

If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

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

It's a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.

I'm really concerned that 'too big to fail' has become 'too big for trial'.

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.