The only sure way to stop excessive risk taking on Wall Street so you don't risk losing your job, or your savings or your home, is to put an end to the excessive economic and political power of Wall Street by busting up the big banks.

In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom.

Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.

I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence.

If you want to be a change agent, you have to ready to fail.

The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.