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.

There are a lot of things that people say about Hillary Clinton. But nobody says that she doesn't know how to throw a punch.

If you want to find out how strong a company's ethics are, don't listen to what its people say, watch what they do.

The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!

Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable.

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.

When you have no real power, go public - really public. The public is where the real power is.