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Wall St. Cashes In On Facebook Plunge As Ordinary Investors Lose Millions

Mark Cuban, 05/24/12

Owner, Dallas Mavericks; Chairman, HDNet

Say goodbye to the individual investor on Wall Street. Whatever positive impression they had of the IPO market and the stock market in general was just torched to the ground.

Jeffrey Ball, 05/24/12

Scholar-in-Residence, Stanford University’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance

This holiday weekend, many Americans will feel what seems a powerful pain at the pump. But an American energy revolution that shifted meaningfully away from fossil fuels would require something more than episodic financial pain. It would require ongoing economic smarts.

David Halperin, 05/24/12

Senior Fellow, United Republic / Republic Report

Standing before soldiers at Fort Stewart, Georgia, last month, President Obama signed an executive order to protect U.S. troops, veterans and their families from predatory abuses by some for-profit colleges. So the for-profit colleges' most loyal allies swung into action.

George Logothetis, 05/24/12

Chairman and CEO, Libra Group

The financial crisis and the resulting political instability in Greece has led to desperation and despondency that have clouded the core values of the Greek people.

Steve Dubb, 05/24/12

Research Director, Democracy Collaborative

As resistance has grown to America's widening gulf between the "1 percent" and the rest of the population, something new has exploded in America's communities; "community wealth building" is an explicit strategy to democratize the ownership of wealth from the ground up.

Sonya Hamlin, 05/24/12

Nationally acclaimed communications, trial and jury expert, two-time Emmy Award winner, author

Did you know that the number one fear of the American public -- researched annually for the last 40 years -- has been and still is any form of public speaking!

Bruce Kushnick, 05/24/12

Executive Director, New Networks Institute

The battle for America's entire communications future is playing out this week in two small towns in New Jersey.

Lawrence W. Schonbrun, 05/24/12

Executive director, Class Action Watch

I can no longer look judges in the eye and tell them I am entitled to millions in fees for so-called class member "benefits" which I believe actually harm the interests of class members, consumers, and society in general.

Rep. Brad Miller, 05/24/12

U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 13th Congressional District

The biggest banks argue that if the lesser mortals who populate the institutions of democratic government don't understand the intricacies of their business, then we just shouldn't meddle.

Sanjay Sanghoee, 05/24/12

Banker; Consultant; Author of 'Merger', a financial thriller from Forge Books

If Congress is truly serious about banking reform, it needs more than just well-intentioned laws: it also needs the right people to enforce those laws, it needs to give those people the resources they require to do their job properly, and it needs to pay them decently.

Jared Bernstein, 05/24/12

Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Nancy Pelosi just moved the $250K tax threshold up to $1 million. That is, she wrote: "Democrats believe that tax cuts for those earning over a million dollars a year should expire..." That is a very big, very bad deal.

Michael Pento, 05/24/12

President, Pento Portfolio Strategies

We now have entire nations which have become insolvent. It would be very difficult to argue that having a banking crisis is better than enduring a sovereign debt crisis, especially since much of the assets banks hold is sovereign debt.

Mike Lux, 05/24/12

Partner, Democracy Partners

Here's the deal about this election year: Democrats are going to have to blow off these attitudes by their Wall Street gang if they are going to have a chance to win this election.

Harlan Green, 05/24/12

Editor and Publisher, PopularEconomics.com

Whether out of ignorance or not understanding the ramifications of such high risk derivative hedges, CEOs such as JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon apparently have little control over the trades such as those that caused the $2 billion loss.

Robert Teitelman, 05/24/12

Editor-in-Chief, 'The Deal'

The "success" of private equity must mean that everyone must be an entrepreneur, an engineer or an M.B.A. "Change" that worked in the conditions of the '70s must be the solution in times that even Brooks admits are "radically different."

Abigail R. Gehring, 05/24/12

Author

Here are 9 of the oddest jobs that don't require much (if any) training and could have you making money tomorrow:

Rana Florida, 05/24/12

CEO, The Creative Class Group

Insights about business can be gleaned from almost any good book -- whether it's a memoir by a professional athlete or a page-turning account of the ups and downs of a frenetic political campaign.