Well, I, you know, I think at PIMCO we always try and be open with the press and the public. I mean, isn't that what voters want from their politicians? Mohamed El-Erian, our CEO, writes several op-eds a week.

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.

Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.

We had no money. My family was in Southie; I was in affluent Brookline. I don't know if it's my personality or the circumstance, but it all kind of led to this feeling of being an observer on the outside.

I don't want to get on the treadmill of earning more money. I'd rather live cheaply and allow myself more freedom. I can honestly say I've never taken a film just for the dough, although I've made some ghastly mistakes.

The money's there in England. They try to gather the best players. We do it differently here at Bayern. We have no investors, no owners.

Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.