As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.
None of us is certain about the outcome of the Arab Spring.
During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.
Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.
There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.
I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very simple philosophy.
There are no short cuts, no detours in the Middle East.
We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts.
The Koran did not invent or introduce patriarchy.
There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.