Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.

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 don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

I'm out and about meeting people all day long. And I'm very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.

People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.

I think it's criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they're paid.

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.