Tony Schwartz

President of The Energy Project; Author of Be Excellent at Anything: The Four Keys to Transforming the Way We Work and Live

We're in a new kind of energy crisis -- and this one's personal. Demand is overwhelming our capacity. We're running as fast as we can, but it's inexorably burning us down.

Arianna Huffington

There is no mistaking that the way we're working isn't working. Figuring out why this is so -- and what we can do about it -- is the animating idea behind The Way We're Working Isn't Working.

Amy Hertz

HuffPost Books Editor

It's something that you do every day, you like it sometimes and at others you don't. You're probably taking a break from it to read this post.

James Kwak

Associate professor, University of Connecticut School of Law, and co-author, 'White House Burning'

When push came to shove in late 2008, the banks' ultimate power was not that they were secretly controlling the levers of power, but that their place at the center of the financial system enabled them to hold the real economy hostage.

William K. Black

Assoc. Professor, Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City; Sr. regulator during S&L debacle

It is insane to allow the SDIs to continue to exist and it is doubly insane to allow, much less encourage, them to grow.

Noam Scheiber

Anyone can talk tough when markets are calm. But in the middle of a financial crisis it takes a special breed of hard-ass to insist on haircuts, since no one can be sure that squeezing creditors won't shut down the entire bond market.

James Kwak

Associate professor, University of Connecticut School of Law, and co-author, 'White House Burning'

We need to have a more accurate grip on just how big our largest financial institutions already are, in order to show how much damage could be caused to the financial system in a crisis.

Tyler Cowen

How much political power do the big banks have? I'd like to air a skeptical note and ask whether they're really running the show. To most people t...

James Kwak

Associate professor, University of Connecticut School of Law, and co-author, 'White House Burning'

We're not saying that everyone has to agree with everything we say about these pictures. But they make clear what kind of financial system we have today. And they need some kind of explanation.

Simon Johnson and James Kwak

Author, 'White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters To You'

What we need is a change in the conventional wisdom in Washington, away from the idea that what is good for Wall Street is good for America, and toward the idea that we should be skeptical of the megabanks.

Amy Hertz

HuffPost Books Editor

Arianna's reading a new book for April -- the fifth pick of HuffPost Books.

Diana Taylor

Managing director at Wolfensohn & Co., Former State Superintendent of Banks

As Bishop and Green say in their book, information is a powerful tool. It is hard to solve a problem if you do not know it exists in the first place.

Amy Hertz

HuffPost Books Editor

It's the end of the month and we're wrapping up the conversation on our March HuffPost book club pick on rebuilding capitalism from the wreck of the financial crisis.

Michael Green and Matthew Bishop

It will not be easy for ordinary citizens to defeat the entrenched interests on Wall Street and in Washington, but things certainly won't change unless we take up the challenge.

Stephen M. Walt

Co-author of New York Times bestseller "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"

I think there's no question that the neoconservatives played a central role in leading the United States into Iraq, but to characterize them as a cabal or conspiracy is misleading.

Angel Cabrera, Ph.D.

As true professionals, business leaders must accept their responsibility to create real, sustainable value.