It will make the public more aware of the problems and make the politicians more responsive.

The protest will be very important, because it will teach a lesson to politicians and the rest of the United States.

Anything that allows people to get back into their comfort zones will allow stocks and bonds to go up a little bit.

If you want to keep politicians out of the Fed's business, which we do, then we ought to stay out of their business. That's one viewpoint.

There was a repeated pattern of not admitting the true extent of what problems were, and only then discovering after the fact that they were a lot bigger than had been announced,

We have driven our fleet of over 200 electric vehicles almost 12 million miles and have had no major problems with the batteries. The new generation of lithium-ion batteries is more powerful and lighter weight and, with reasonable volumes, should provide a price that would allow plug-in hybrid electric vehicles to be competitive.