Sometimes I feel like my entire life is just one crisis after another. You do get used to it after awhile.

It’s been every 7-8 years for me for my entire life. I find it very difficult to make large bets.

If you'd been betting along the market you'd be up big by now

I graduated in 2009; what you say is true. We appear to be experiencing major crises pretty much every 7-8 years now. Remember that just after the dotcom crash, there was the collapse of Enron, MCI Worldcom, Nortel Networks and others. These had a ripple effect across financial markets and devastated communities that relied on the jobs and spending those companies generated.