Offering CEOs big money to come and run companies does not guarantee great leadership. In fact, the practice may attract the wrong leaders altogether.

The problem with these efforts is that they will not fix the fundamental problem, but instead will simply push the problem -- the loss of home equity -- onto the next generation of homebuyers.

The Fed and Congress may be good at managing monetary policy and passing laws, but they are not loan officers nor bond investors.

As a completely unregulated private equity partnership, Cerberus has no public reporting requirements. In fact, they are now refusing to disclose their finances even after the bailout.

Was it too much to ask Congress to examine this government intervention in the free market critically before authorizing the transfer of US taxpayer dollars to benefit the banking sector?

Donal Trump Blames Crisis on Divine Intervention: As the Job Losses Mount, the Government's Bailout Flouders/Fails It has taken a while for the stars...

Let's try something new. How about a $55,000 loan, available to every taxpayer? It's the people who are undercapitalized. Give the people a stake in America and see what they'll do.

"People who say the U.S. doesn't innovate are woefully out of touch with Detroit's standing in this business."

The hard truth of the matter is that truly innovative ideas, which could be "game-changers" on the battlefield, have been AWOL from Detroit's methods of operation for some time now.

"Free-market" health care is as perverse an incentive as free-market police and fire protection would be, leaving everyone vulnerable, at the mercy of the marketplace.

From my recent experience helping US women grow their businesses, I am convinced women will lead America out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

After an excruciatingly long wait, we are finally at the end of a dark era in our nation's history.

We need an economic system of checks and balances where the public sector competes with the private sector and keeps it honest, and vice versa.

We need to bury the philosophy that worships only business, free markets, deregulation and free trade, and replace it with an economic program that rebuilds the middle class.