Bethany McLean

Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.

Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.

Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy mortgages from banks and other lenders, providing those financial institutions with capital to make new loans.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

When I see something that I think isn't right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.