Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

There's been a myth perpetuated where people think, 'I need to go into consulting, banking, finance, law, or medicine to make a consistently reasonable amount of money.' People are now realizing that's not the case.

As the scale of economic activity increases until capitalism affects everything, from the atmosphere to the deep ocean floor, the entire planet becomes a sacrifice zone: we all inhabit the periphery of the profit-making machine.

If the cash runs out, it's like a heart attack for you and your business. Keep that front and centre of your mind, and you will have financial security and not be struggling to pay the bills.

There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking.