Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.

As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

No one will do it for you.

I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.