I'm A Plain Soap Kind Of Guy.

Corruption, Embezzlement, Fraud, These Are All Characteristics Which Exist Everywhere. It Is Regrettably The Way Human Nature Functions, Whether We Like It Or Not. What Successful Economies Do Is Keep It To A Minimum. No One Has Ever Eliminated Any Of That Stuff.

I Don't Know Where The Stock Market Is Going, But I Will Say This, That If It Continues Higher, This Will Do More To Stimulate The Economy Than Anything We've Been Talking About Today Or Anything Anybody Else Was Talking About.

I Don't Think It's Possible For The Fed To End Its Easy-money Policies In A Trouble-free Manner. Recent Episodes In Which Fed Officials Hinted At A Shift Toward Higher Interest Rates Have Unleashed Significant Volatility In Markets, So There Is No Reason To Suspect That The Actual Process Of Boosting Rates Would Be Any Different. I Think That Real Pressure Is Going To Occur Not By The Initiation By The Federal Reserve, But By The Markets Themselves.

The True Measure Of A Career Is To Be Able To Be Content, Even Proud, That You Succeeded Through Your Own Endeavors Without Leaving A Trail Of Casualties In Your Wake.

We May Be In A Rapidly Evolving International Financial System With All The Bells And Whistles Of The So-called New Economy. But The Old-economy Rules Of Prudence Are As Formidable As Ever. We Violate Them At Our Own Peril.