I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.

It's pretty much how we get anything added to the curriculum. When parents said children needed to be computer literate, the schools started responding. The same thing is true of basic financial literacy.

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.

We have to rethink how to teach financial education in the 21st century.

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.

I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.

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.