With or WITHOUT a Social SECURITY FIX, Americans don't have enough ASSETS to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate.

I'd guess blockchains will be the full-blown backbone of virtual worlds - the system for CURRENCY, ASSETS, identity, even governance - before doing the same in the 'real world.' Which is where I THINK we will end up in the real world eventually; it's just a MATTER of which goes first and how long until it's the CASE for both.

I am confident that President Trump's ADMINISTRATION is CAPABLE of MAKING the Pentagon run at maximum efficiency and enacting procurement reforms that will GET weapons and assets to our warfighters more QUICKLY and efficiently.

The positive aspect of my negative VIEW is essentially that you shouldn't own cash and GOVERNMENT bonds, but you should be in ASSETS LIKE REAL estate or equities or precious metals or in commodities.

I was, as president and chairman of the board, required by LAW to VERIFY the veracity of the financial FIGURES, the assets under management, the number of OUTSTANDING shares, et cetera.

If a financial INSTITUTION has business operations in the United States, hires PEOPLE in the United States, if they are clogged with illiquid ASSETS, they have the same IMPACT on the American people as any other institution.

In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our ASSETS and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their RESOURCES; we are also denying the WORLD the example of a FREE society enjoying its freedom to the FULLEST.

I have SPENT my CAREER MAKING a DIFFERENCE with underperforming ASSETS.

Provision was ALSO MADE for the DISTRIBUTION of Germany's FOREIGN assets among the ALLIES.

If these ASSETS were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import RAW materials for its INDUSTRIES, JAPANESE exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat.

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other ASSETS only insofar as they affect the central bank's GOAL variables - OUTPUT, employment, and INFLATION.

One way to MAKE sure you don't lose ASSETS in the future is to streamline your accounts. Consider USING one bank for all your BANKING needs and one brokerage firm for all your INVESTMENTS.

Businesses and households react to lower RATES by INVESTING and spending more. Lower rates ALSO support the prices of housing and financial assets such as STOCKS and bonds.

As costly as it was in the lives of our MEN and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, PEARL HARBOR was a watershed moment for AMERICA.