Good for Warren Buffett that he can afford to do that! Some people, sometimes, need to finance a purchase or rent a car, and a credit card becomes a necessity.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

I think the best way it happens is if parents say, this is important for educating my child.

Cars, toys, aspirin, meat, toasters, water - nearly every product sold has passed basic safety regulations well in advance of being marketed and sold. But consumer credit is a kind of buyer-beware, wild west. That is partly the result of history.

I can remember riding in the car with [my daughter] Amelia, when she was very small, and we'd talk about money the same way we'd talk about sparkly shoes or what had happened at school.

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

I saw at a young age that one bad break can turn a family's financial life upside down. And it has affected everything in my life since then.