Small banks that lend to consumers are fine.

A stand in is a politician who can deliver her constituency to her Wall Street backers. That's what a politician does in America. You get a constituency; you make them believe your promises, and then you turn them over to your financial campaign backers. That's what politics has become and that's as much an art of deception as economics is.

We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way up, investment and savings going up.

Small banks that lend to consumers are fine.

Seventy-eight percent of millennials are worried about not having enough good paying job opportunity to pay off their student loans. Seventy-four percent can't pay the health care if they get sick. Seventy-nine percent don't have enough money to live when they retire. So, already, we're having a whole generation that's coming on, not only here but also in Europe, that isn't able to get good-paying jobs.

Governments create money and spend it into the economy by running budget deficits. The paper currency in your pocket is technically a government debt.