Clearly (it's had) a crossover impact. But I think the impact it's going to have on the U.S. and domestic investments abroad is overstated.

I do think that it is a good thing, ... It creates excess supply of the yen, and it will have a similar effect to lowering interest rates and achieve a lot of the objectives that many officials want them to do.

Much of the work was done by the parishioners themselves, ... It speaks well of the parish, as a group, working together as a community of faith.

The numbers support (the idea) that the economy is growing and inflation isn't as big as concern as everybody seems to think that it is.

If we were in a super-inflationary period, like some suggest [we're in], it would be better to have a tanker of oil in your backyard, or a bushel of wheat.

What I'm seeing is that confidence in the Japanese economy is starting to gain. And as people get more comfortable investing in Japanese equities and other Japanese assets, they need to buy yen. And as they buy these yen, the dollar goes down.

I think gold is still a long-term bear investment and any of these technical corrections are temporary in nature. There's no substantial reason to own gold anymore.