Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.