Richard (RJ) Eskow

Writer; Senior Fellow, Campaign for America's Future

Detroit, which grew and prospered for much of the last century, has become a wasteland of abandoned buildings, lawlessness, and municipal debts. Who'll pay the price for the fall of Detroit?

Jason Alderman

Senior Director, Visa Inc.

People need to get out of their car leases for a variety of reasons. It's notoriously difficult to escape a lease. One way around this, if your finance company allows it, is to transfer the lease to another party for the remainder of its term.

Cecilia Pagkalinawan

Serial Entrepreneur/Digital Strategist

I got on my plane to NY after 48 hours in Detroit with tears in my eyes. Why was I so moved by the people, entrepreneurs, and start-ups I met during such a short visit? Trips to London, Milan, Los Angeles and San Francisco have never affected me in such a way.

Janet M. Hively, Ph.D.

Encore Entrepreneur

Older workers who are creative and entrepreneurial are taking advantage of this shift in the labor market, seizing it as an opportunity to work past retirement age without being tied to a nine-to-five schedule.

Carol Kellermann

President of the Citizens Budget Commission

Highly educated talent is mobile and New York City, the center of the metro area, needs to advance policies that attract, retain and cultivate that talent.

Gregory Beyer

Senior Editor, The Huffington Post

In addition to his timeless observations on love and death and empire and pretty much every other aspect of the human experience, Shakespeare devoted quite a bit of ink to money and how it affects us.

Lee A. Saunders

President, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO

Once again, the facts speak for themselves: Unions are the first and last line of defense for America's workers.

David Macaray

Labor columnist, playwright and author

Our understanding of human nature, the laws of economics, the history of mankind, and a quick glance in the mirror tell us everything we need to know. In short, that so-called "self-policing" doctrine promoted by free market zealots is a howling fraud.

Nir Eyal

Blogger, NirAndFar.com

Ethan Stock lived the Silicon Valley dream. He had recently sold his company to eBay and emanated the tanned skin and relaxed composure you'd expect of someone who just cashed a big corporate check. But I was surprised by what he said next. "Mediocrity is worse than failure, you know?"

Jamie Kramer

Global Head of Thematic Advisory for J.P. Morgan Private Bank

We often are told that work and life should be separate and therefore balanced, like two objects on a scale. Over the years, however, I have discovered that greater fulfillment comes from finding ways to integrate these two important parts of my life, rather than thinking of them in isolation.

Dedrick Muhammad

Senior Director of Economic Programs, NAACP

Predatory mortgage lenders aren't the only ones under fire for racial targeting -- the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is now probing auto lenders for allegedly discriminating against Blacks and Latinos.

Michael Pento

President, Pento Portfolio Strategies

The Fed has recently expressed a desire to begin winding down its Quantitative Easing program in the next few months. This would be the first step towards the eventual raising of interest rates.

David Halperin

Attorney, advocate, writer at RepublicReport.org

A trade association of for-profits college could work to advantage those honest member schools who actually are helping students to learn and train for careers. But APSCU, instead, appears to subscribe to the quick buck ethos of its biggest, wealthiest, most powerful members.

Robert E. Prasch

Author, How Markets Work: Supply, Demand and 'The Real World'; Professor of economics, Middlebury College

Nothing the Greek people have done merits the ongoing and systemic destruction of their lives and livelihood. The Troika's program is not helping the economy and is dangerous politically.

Nate C. Hindman and Joe Epstein

From Barack Obama to Veronica Mars, just about everyone and their co-founder is raising money these days through crowdfunding. But for every breakout campaign, there are thousands that fail to hit their goals.

Steve Mariotti

Founder, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship

Feynman's one sentence, to pass onto to future generations, was the atomic hypothesis. I often think of what my own piece of information, my one sentence, would be.

Alison A. Quirk

Executive Vice President, State Street Corporation

My daughter's friend is a programmer, and he works two days a week from home. He isn't caring for a child or a sick relative. He and his generation simply think: Why endure the hassle and expense of a long commute when you don't have to?