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.

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'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.