Jacqui Dunne, 12/09/12

Journalist; Co-author, 'Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity Into Prosperity'

A major contributor to Switzerland's buoyancy is a business-to-business currency and the banking institution behind it. The story of this success has its initiation during the bleak days of the Depression.

Joel Sucher, 12/10/12

New York filmmaker/blogger

Blankfein watchers have been treated to a flurry of sightings during the last few weeks. The formerly reclusive CEO has been popping up Zelig-like all over town and the press has taken note.

Amitai Etzioni, 12/10/12

GWU Professor

It is morally abhorrent to cut benefits to any current or future seniors before much greater efforts are made to stop large scale raids on the Medicare coffers by nefarious corporations.

Iain Murray, 12/10/12

Vice President for Strategy, Competitive Enterprise Institute

There's a buzz in both Berlin and D.C. these days for free trade as a potential path back to growth for ailing economies. Indeed, a Transatlantic Free Trade area would be a very good idea -- but a highly regulated trade area would not deliver the benefits promised.

Allan Brawley, 12/10/12

Professor Emeritus of Social Work, Arizona State University

It is noteworthy that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are proposing increases in the estate tax. As always, the latter are putting forth their usual lame arguments for lowering or eliminating it.

Bill Moyers, 12/10/12

Managing Editor, Moyers & Company

This past election, Norquist's group, Americans for Tax Reform, spent nearly $16 million to support his favored candidates; that's according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Where did that money come from, and what did it buy?

Wendell Potter, 12/10/12

Center for Public Integrity columnist, author, consultant

I've often said that the Affordable Care Act is the end of the beginning of health reform. It addresses many problems associated with health insurance, but more must be done to control costs and access real universal coverage. And flaws in the law need to be fixed.

Josh Silver, 12/07/12

CEO, United Republic

For those of us who care less about partisanship and more about what our elected officials actually do -- or fail to do -- once in office, the 2012 election portends a bleak future.

David Meerman Scott, 12/10/12

Bestselling author of 'The New Rules of Marketing and PR'

The agency says that the update to Hastings' 200,000 subscribers where he said "members had enjoyed over 1 billion hours in June" violated the SEC Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD) rule.

Brian Stone, 12/10/12

LGBT advocate, U.S. Navy veteran and student at the University of Michigan

If "right to work" legislation is passed in Michigan, conservatives are sure to use homophobia as a tool to weaken unions and hurt the middle class and the LGBT rights movement all at the same time. The real price will be paid in the health and safety of our workers, and in rising inequality.

Bruce Pietrykowski, 12/10/12

Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Labor and Community Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Unions have changed. It's time for politicians to crack the books and learn about how to encourage the creation of more high performance workplaces of the 21st century rather than clinging to outmoded ideas that attempt to recreate the 19th century workplace.

Gil Laroya, 12/10/12

Award-winning Silicon Valley product designer

Whether your definition of work is positive or negative, one thing is becoming clear: The definition of work has evolved. This ain't your mom's economy anymore.

Cooper Smith Koch, 12/10/12

Founder, Cooper Smith Agency and Gay List Daily

As we all try to figure out how Pinterest best fits into the larger communications outreach puzzle, here are five tips for doing Pinterest right.

Jared Bernstein, 12/07/12

Fmr. Obama administration economist; CNBC and MSNBC contributor

The job market in November performed notably better than expected, especially in light of expected damage to hiring from late October's Hurricane Sandy.

Richard Schiffman, 12/10/12

Journalist

It is as if America woke up one morning to find that its arteries were sclerotic, its limbs stiff, its appetites and drives waning. Can we rouse ourselves and recover the suppleness of youth?

Carl Pope, 12/10/12

Former executive director and chairman, Sierra Club

If we decide that the steel we use in our cars and bridges and buildings is going to be American steel, we will care a lot about how much pollution it generates. If we import it from Korea, we are going to focus more on the price.

Sanjay Sanghoee, 12/07/12

Banker, political commentator, author of thriller novel 'Merger'.

By linking the welfare of working-class Americans directly to the prosperity of the rich, the Republicans can protect the insulated interests of corporations and the wealthy without the fear of backlash.