Paul Ryan's quest to slash government spending is a job-killing agenda. He has to resort to crazy incoherent arguments about interest rates because everybody can see that spending money to create jobs will, you know, create jobs.

Banks broke the law and hired other people to break the law for them, scoring big profits without being punished. Is it any wonder that they're still at it?

Laws are only as good as the regulators who enforce them. If the SEC believes in the charges it brought against Citi executives, it should be working with prosecutors to pursue a criminal case.

Do today's economic conservatives actually want to live in a functional society, or are they striving for an economy that runs on Monopoly Money?

You may very well find some unpleasant new fee in a banking statement this year. But it will have nothing to do with new consumer protections, regardless of what CNBC anchors tell you.