SUPER DITCH
More Than 10,000 Super-Rich Households Didn't Pay Income Taxes

Richard (RJ) Eskow, 05/28/12

Writer; host, 'The Breakdown'; Senior Fellow, Campaign for America's Future

Why is it that most Americans can't get a principal reduction from Chase or any other bank, but JPMorgan Chase was so very flexible with a sitting member of the United States Senate? People should be demanding those answers now.

Don Tapscott, 05/29/12

Advisor to government and business leaders; Author, 'Macrowikinomics'

Here is my bottom line: By all means, be as open as you want online; but realize that with openness can come vulnerabilities, especially for your children.

Michael R. Powers, 05/29/12

Author, 'Acts of God and Man: Ruminations on Risk and Insurance'

Insurance products, familiar for generations to those living in North America and Europe, are only now gaining a small foothold in China. It is possible that conventional insurance is simply failing to compete against a very ancient, financing mechanism: risk pooling.

Steve Lombardo, 05/29/12

Global CEO, StrategyOne

One thing is certain thus far in the election cycle: we have two well-armed and savvy political teams that are unlikely to let any shot from the opposition go without response.

Richard Barrington, 05/29/12

CFA, MoneyRates.com

Whether or not there was any wrongdoing, the reasons for the Facebook flop are understandable. In many ways, this is an echo of the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, when emotion triumphed over logic for long enough to drive Internet stocks to prices that could only fall.

Laura Merriman, 05/29/12

Master's student, NYU

The safety of our nation's workers is as important as the quality of meat we produce. We cannot sanction lost fingers, broken arms and severe musculoskeletal injuries for $90 million.

David Isenberg, 05/29/12

Author, 'Shadow Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq'

The emerging economic paradigm indicates that use of maritime armed guards will only increase. That means the private security companies that combat the pirates were earning much more than the pirates themselves. Thus piracy is good for at least some businesses.

Joanne Bamberger, 05/29/12

PunditMom; Author, 'Mothers of Intention: How Women & Social Media are Revolutionizing Politics in America' & 2012 Election Editor/Corresp. at iVillage.com

Even though there is never a sure thing on Wall Street, many people thought this would be the exception. After all, it's Facebook we're talking about.

Steve Kettmann, 05/29/12

Berlin-based American author

Anyone reading the U.S. press last year would have assumed the Euro would be dead by now. It isn't. Here's guessing the Euro will survive the current crisis -- which would be good not just for Europeans but for the world.

Heather Robinson, 05/29/12

Former Senior Writer for the New York Daily News

Rep. Shelley Berkley, the liberal Democratic Senate candidate trying to unseat Senator Dean Heller in November, is a gung-ho supporter of labor unions which highlights her tight relationship with Big Labor in her fights for office.

Harlan Green, 05/29/12

Editor and Publisher, PopularEconomics.com

Austerity folks keep insisting starvation is the only way to recover from the biggest credit binge since the Great Depression. The latest example is House Republicans' passing of Paul Ryan's budget proposal that punishes the poor to pay for the excesses of the wealthiest.

Paul Szep, 05/29/12

Two-time Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist

Wendell Potter, 05/29/12

Analyst at the Center for Public Integrity

CO-OPs could be one of the sleepers in the health care reform law that truly transforms how care is financed and delivered in this country. And they could even hasten the day when the big investor-owned corporations cede the marketplace to nonprofits and move on to other ways of earning a profit.

Jane Pak, 05/29/12

CEO, National Association of Women Business Owners

Not all small businesses are created equal and it's reasonable to say that the top 10 business tips for dental practices will not be the same as the top 10 tips for sandwich shops. I can feel your anticipation -- you must know these 10 golden nuggets. So here they are.

John R. Talbott, 05/29/12

Author, "Survival Investing: How to Prosper Amid Thieving Banks and Corrupt Governments"

What if the Treasury borrowed $2 trillion dollars in a series of 100 year bond offerings at say 4.5%? Rather than have the government waste the money on unneeded projects or squander it on more bank bailouts, the $2 trillion of proceeds could be distributed to the American people.

Daniel Dworkin, 05/29/12

Results enabler, writer, speaker at Schaffer Consulting

To what extent should "what we do" define "who we are"? Like most philosophical questions, there is no simple answer.

Jarrett L. Carter, 05/29/12

Founding Editor, HBCUDigest.com

HBCUs are broke. Students know it, alumni know it, corporations know it and the government knows it. Until now, HBCUs have prepared their students to be leaders in a range of industries.
But they haven't yet taught, with consistency, how to own these industries.