I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.

If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.

It is business that generates the jobs, income and taxes that keep a country going.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

Gold and Silver have always had value, never gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?

In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.