My response [to fear of being poor]was to study contracts, finance, economics, to plan, to have a goal, to work on that goal. To learn everything I could. I always poked at the things that scared me most.

When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful.

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

The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.

Donald Trump is a genuine threat to America.

Say good-bye to Dodd-Frank and all of the financial reforms and efforts to try to rein in Wall Street. Just say good-bye to it. That means we can go where Wall Street gets to call the shots again. We saw how that worked out in 2008.

Personal responsibility matters. There are no excuses for those who spend money on things they cannot afford. But it's a whole lot harder to act responsibly when consumer credit contracts are designed to be incomprehensible, when prices are obscure and risks are hidden.