There's a lot of research on the shift in who deals with money when families get in trouble. In good times, husbands handle the family's finances about 80 percent of the time. But when times turn sour and families start dealing with creditors and managing unpayable bills, women take more active roles.

The banks lobbied Washington so they could write the rules that got us into this crisis. They then lobbied Washington to get the money to bail them out. And then they are lobbying Washington to write the rules so they can get us into the next crisis. It's perfect circularity.

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.

Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

Say good-bye to the Affordable Care Act. That means 20 million people who lose their health insurance, just like that.