Connie Cuellar, 2/10/12

Writer

With some 80,000 Michigans looking at a March 6 deadline to lose their unemployment checks, Michigan. Rep. Candice Miller said today that she will support a 2012 extension of unemployment benefits and the full year extension of the payroll tax credit.

Jeff Reeves, 2/10/12

Financial journalist, Editor, InvestorPlace.com

At risk of revealing that the emperor has no clothes, let me clue you in to a dirty little secret about the financial media: We're short-sighted, number-junkie reactionaries.

Van Jones, 2/10/12

President, RebuildtheDream.com; Author of NY Times bestseller, 'The Green-Collar Economy'

We need a solution at the scale of the problem, so that families can get back on their feet, the economy can get working, and people can reach for their American dreams again instead of watching them drown.

Carla Holtze, 2/11/12

Co-Founder, Have to Have

Today shopping is all about social commerce and new tools that make browsing and buying a breeze -- from wherever we are.

Matt Browne, 2/10/12

Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

The politics of the Eurozone are evolving. As progressive and conservative visions for the continent's economic future emerge, unprecedented levels of cross-border political co-operation are now also taking place.

Daniel Wagner and Dee Woo, 2/10/12

Instead of following predictable (and boring) scripts, why not turn the page on Cold War-esque rhetoric and find ways to join hands with China so as to mutually benefit from each other's comparative advantages?

Devon Swezey, 2/10/12

Project Director, Breakthrough Institute

A healthy manufacturing sector is essential to America's economic prosperity in the 21st century. But you wouldn't know that reading last Sunday's New York Times, where Christina Romer writes that there are no compelling reasons for U.S. manufacturing policy.

Dennis M. Kelleher, 2/10/12

President and CEO, Better Markets, Inc.

It's like saying rather than drowning in a lake 50 feet deep, you get to drown in a lake that is only 30 feet deep. And, people are taking victory laps? You don't believe any of that and still think what the politicians said about punishing the banks was true?

Adam Winkler, 2/10/12

Professor of Law, UCLA

The time has come for President Obama to sign an executive order banning sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination by federal contractors.

Jed Kolko, 2/10/12

Chief Economist, Trulia

The robo-signing settlement is the latest -- and potentially the largest -- piece in the U.S. housing policy puzzle. Even though it's partly punishment for banks' wrongdoing, it is also another answer by the government to the question of how it can help the housing market.

Bill Gunderson, 2/10/12

President and Founder, Gunderson Capital Management

If a bunch of politicians can run the country into the ground, I feel pretty confident that it will take some businessmen to turn it around.

Mathias Terheggen, 2/10/12

Senior advisor, Philanthropy & Values-Based Investing, UBS

With few exceptions, the wealth disparity is growing steadily. What is new though is that within developed economies -- among them are some of the strongest globally -- the wealth gap is widening too.

Ron Davis, 2/10/12

J.D. candidate, Harvard Law School

Republicans who support subsidies should stop their mass-manipulation. Rather than hiding behind hypocritical pro-market rhetoric, it is time to admit they have embraced their very own entitlement-boom that rivals the dreams of any European welfarist.

David Woolner, 2/10/12

Senior Fellow and Hyde Park Resident Historian, Roosevelt Institute

Indeed, by the time Franklin Roosevelt took office in March of 1933, it is estimated that approximately 50 percent of all urban mortgages in the United States were delinquent or in foreclosure and that an average of 1,000 homes per day were being lost.

Jason Stanford, 2/10/12

Democratic Consultant; Writer

"Intrade for political professionals is like the ultimate insider training. I feel like Martha Stewart. You take the industry you live and breathe and know and love and hate, and you make money off of it."

Andrew Winston, 2/10/12

Founder, Winston Eco-Strategies; Author, 'Green to Gold' and 'Green Recovery'

Combine Apple's incredible earnings with the reality of life in its supply chain, and it's clear that the tech giant could afford to do much better by workers.

Denice Kronau, 2/10/12

Chief Diversity Officer, Siemens AG

How do you recognize when you are working too much and for the wrong reasons? Who today truly keeps their perspective of what's normal or acceptable when it comes to work? Surviving the economic crisis of 2009 has pushed the limits of what is normal working behavior.