The path to success used to be up and through an organization. Now the path to success is increasingly through self-promotion.

We're the richest economy in the history of the world. For the majority of Americans not to get the benefits of this extraordinarily prosperous economy, there's something fundamentally wrong.

It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.

And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denyi ng, science-denying , anti-immigrant House Republicans in history, bent on taking America back to the 19th century.

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

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

Any bank that is too big to fail is too big. Period.