The last place I'm ever going to live or work is D.C.
I think we should all be proud that we are living in a country where we can question those we put in power because, at the end of the day, they work for every citizen.
It's a philosophy that - 'We, the People' - it's about us, that if the Americans want to do something, they have the power to try to put leaders in place to carry out whatever their notions are.
While the vandals are on the street corners, the Tea Party conservatives, they're working state houses, the governorships, the mayorships, the Senate, the House.
People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it.
When I was an institutional broker in a former life, I was a believer in the merits of using technical analysis. I found that it was a very useful tool that complemented the much more mainstream tools generically referred to as fundamental analysis.
The president doesn't hold all the cards. The cards are evenly split up!
People with 401(k)s need to be very conservative. Picking bottoms should be for insiders and traders.
Blame the Tea Party? Geez, no wonder Kerry did so well in an election. If it wasn't for the Tea Party, they would have passed the debt ceiling thumbs up; we would have been rated BBB.
We all know deep inside that no country is the same as it was 5 years ago.
I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better.
Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely.
I think it is a mistake for candidates, or once they get elected in office, to be dwelling too much on the topic of markets.
Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can't possibly foresee.
We now have the technology to pretty much hear everything. Can you imagine how our holiday dinners would be if every relative's entire conversations from birth to that moment in time was shown to every other relative?
Believe me. When you're talking about trust in government, you're preaching to the choir, whether it's on the financial side, the central banking side: we see areas where the government does good jobs; we see areas where they don't do as good a job.
I don't understand it and haven't understood in this world of technology: where every building has a camera, every ATM has a camera, why don't we have cameras on police officers?
I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper.
When it comes to policies of central bankers, the biggest systemic risk we have... are those policies.
I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation.
