"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor." -- Thomas Jefferson

These days America is at war with itself. The fight within our borders is played...

There is a lot of talk these days about what women don't do. We don't head Fortune 500 Companies. We don't sit on corporate boards. We don't hold key political seats.

Forbes reported that 4% of America's largest companies are run by women - that's 20 out...

This weekend in Manhattan, a small Scottish storm erupts. Anthony Baxter, a Scottish filmmaker and journalist brings his amazingly bold project: You've Been Trumped to New York. Baxter uses the powerful art of cinematography to expose the bully-capitalism of billionaire Trump to a small group of courageous and...

You may have noticed that the world is getting hotter. Not the kind of "hot" that brings up images of Jude Law or George Clooney. But the kind of hot that makes you dream of sailing across the Adriatic, jumping into a cool pool, lapping up the waves on the...

"To err is human; to forgive, divine," goes the saying. That sums up the four-year conflict and conundrum between Wall Street and Main Street. We can't forget and we don't want to forgive.

Many people on Main Street will emphatically exclaim, "No!" We cannot forgive Wall Street for turning...

I was cruising the web recently and came upon a video that truly shocked me: a promotional video from Rebecca Grado & Christy Whitman, the respective "therapist and lifecoach" authors of Taming your Alpha Bitch: How to be Fierce and Feminine (and Get Everything You Want!). The authors...

A rather caustic editorial from Bloomberg News' nameless "editors" mocked Goldman Sachs defector, Greg Smith, in fake bully-on-the-playground bravura. Just like blogging commentators, it's easy to be brave when your identity is hidden. It is even easier to be a bully when you can take a few swings...

This week marks a turning point for Goldman Sachs and the rest of the investment banking industry. Somehow the king of kingmakers, Goldman Sachs, couldn't buy one if its very own star's silence. The truth is that the astonishingly brave op-ed piece by the former head of Goldman...

Last week, I found myself on Manhattan's West Side in an exquisitely decorated loft owned by Winds of Change philanthropist Shamaya Gilo. Sixty powerhouse women were gathered together for wine and cheese and to strategize about how to support women's leadership through cold-hard cash. The loft was filled...

What is "slow food" you might ask? It is the organic and eco-friendly answer to fast food. Whatever McDonald's or Taco Bell might be to you -- chemically altered, fat infused, artery hardening, and diabetes-causing edible trash -- "slow food" is the opposite. The healthy alternative to the nation's carcinogenic...

They may be rich, but they're not stupid...

Today's billionaires are feeling the heat. This past week, seventy billionaires made their way to the Swiss mega-resort town of Davos to strategize the 2012 global economy. Every year at this time, the moneyed elite take their place at the top of...

One of the holiest holiday season's of the year is upon us and consumers are out waging their war on Christmas. We are told to shop, shop, shop and keep the American economy rolling! Most of us, however, are holding onto our money as much as possible these days. The...

Traders are unique among Wall Street professionals. They are a restless bunch always in search of the next thrill. The people who climb to the top of Mt. Everest, jump out of planes, engage in hardcore sports or high stakes poker have lots in common with traders, or they might...

As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to throw light on the economic hardship of the 99%, the United States Federal Reserve continues to do its part to widen the economic gap between Wall Street and Main Street. The new plan is to purchase $545 billion worth...

All hell broke loose in New York last week when Occupy Wall Street protestors took to the streets to demand their piece of the pie. Rage, conflict and high emotions marked the mood for protestors who were forced in the early morning hours to remove their tent city from Zuccotti...

"Thank God for young people," gushed an ebullient Michael Moore to the mostly undergrad crowd at a recent New School event in New York called "Occupy Anywhere." Moore, in all his t-shirted, baseball capped, beer bellied glory, waxed rhapsodic over the Occupy movement that is taking America by storm.

Moore...

Only a few short years ago, investment banking was the hottest career of hot finance careers. Lately, Wall Street in general is suffering a major identity crisis. Pilloried as the bane of our economic existence, the financial industry is feeling the heat. At a recent lecture on corporate responsibility, the...

To paraphrase the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, "[Capitalism] may not be a perfect system, but show me a better one." To date, there isn't one. But in the wake of the widening economic inequity in America and around the world, the old rules of capitalism are long past due...

It's not about anarchy. It's not about ending capitalism. It's not about the rich versus the poor. It's not even about Wall Street.

The small and courageous group of protestors in downtown New York's Zuccotti Park is fighting for something really simple -- something most of us in America have...

Lately, there has been a fast-growing movement to declare "Wall Street" the enemy of the people. We arrived at this critical point of public rage very simply because the 20th century model of "take the money and run" went off a cliff three years ago resulting in serious unintended consequences...