financial advice, but suze orman has changed course on the american dream. known for sticking to her guns, what are we to think now? here's vicki mabrey. >> reporter: until a few years ago, the american dream seemed to mean -- >> more, bigger, best. >> reporter: financial adviser, suze orman says that dream -- >> has died. that is a good thing, because those values of more, bigger, bigger and impressive were false. >> reporter: in the new american dream, she says -- >> you actually get more pleasure out of saving than you do spending. >> reporter: the new dream's poster child could be diante murphy and his mother. >> look how tall you are. you're a young man. >> reporter: he met orman by chance seven years ago and her advice stuck with him. >> do you get an allowance. >> yes. >> what if i told you, if you put it in the bank, the bank would pay you to keep it there. >> i will put it in. >> reporter: he did and so did his mother, who cut back on nonessentials and had money deducted automatically from her paycheck. >> reporter: how much are you able to put away

suze orman is known for no nonsense and now she's tweaked her advice to suit the times. four tips for making real ooisic dreams come true. >>> diet debate. the popular hcg diet combines pregnancy hormones and pal try meals. and some swear by it. but can imnating pregnant women really peel off the pounds? we'll take a hard look. >>> and, meat ball madness. an unorthodox take on an ir resistible classic. we're in the kitchen with a top chef for some top chow. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," march 8th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. tonight, we're going to begin with personal finances. jobs are still scarce and tax day is on the horizon, so many americans are feeling added pressure to get their financial houses in order. and for the millions of people who buy her books and watch her on tv, that's where suze orman comes in. but lately,orman has reversed some of the key points of advice she used to give. tonight, she tells vicki mabrey why. >> look how tall yo

suze orman offers financial tips for tough times and more. here are the headlines for this sunday morning the 13th of march, 2011. we begin with the latest from japan. a news agency now estimates more than 1800 people are either dead or missing after friday's massive earthquake and the tsunami that followed. but there are projections that the death toll could rise much higher, perhaps surpassing 10,000 in one state alone. some 170,000 people have been evacuated from a 12-mile area around fukushima nuclear power plant. a partial meltdown is underway now, and a second of the plant's three reactors. many of the households remain without power. at least one million have no water. it's now believed insured losses from the quake could be more than $15 billion. as supplies and personnel stream in from the united states and other nations, japan's prime minister is calling this the worst crisis his nation has faced since world war ii. the aftershocks continue. more than 150 since the quake struck on friday. lucy craft is in tokyo. >> reporter: two day

what are we doing about it, orman? >> well, governor, you just stole my statistics, and by the way, there are state senators now calling me orton hall, just so you know. we are making important progress on this issue. there are several piece, and by the way, let me step back. the statistics that you quoted are really staggering. back in my home county of fairfield county in 1999, we were able to identify four people addicted to prescription op opiates or heroin, and you go back to 2010, the number of people in the treatment centers for disorders were there because they were addicted to prescription opiates or heroin and they were turning away people every month. if you look at the jails in fairfield county, we were spending $350,000 incarcerating people with opiate addiction and by 2008, 52% of all of the jail days were consumed by people who were opiate addicted. 90% of the people in jail for opiate addiction were repeat offenders and had been there for fife times. we are putting the same people in jail, over and over

. >> also suze orman has been talking about the new american dream.ions. >> first, remember all the way back to erin brockovich? fast forward to her love interest and he's now fighting aliens in "battle los angeles." he plays a marine. aaron, nice to see you. i love a good alien movie. i think "the king's speech" would have been better if it had aliens in it. >> yes! >> this had to be fun to make. >> it was a blast. it was a childhood dream to get out and play with our weapons and shout and all that stuff. lots of fun. >> you went to boot camp? >> we did three weeks in the middle of summer in louisiana which was hard enough. really got to know each other. all that camaraderie and friendship in the film we developed in boot camp. >> you were tough. you broke your arm during filming and kept on shooting? >> i did. i tried to get fancy and do an air jordan through a huge fireball. fell seven feet on my arm, heard it crack when i hit the ground and did the charlie chaplin thing and kept going. i said "don't cut" if i'm going to break my arm. >> you did it

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"erika is to strategy what suze orman is to personal finance." that's some quote, girl! erika andersen: that is some quote. i was very honored when nancy said that. diane bliss: and that really is an implication that you're tackling the whole situation, not just a little fraction. and that's really what you do, you take that book back and you ask people to join you in stepping back, pulling back that camera lens if you would. talk a little bit about that. erika andersen: well, i think the reason nancy said that is because she felt that my apprch is sensible and simple and it's accessible. that you don't have to be the ceo of a major organization to understand it, although you can be. that you, at home, trying to create the life, the career, the relationship that you want for yourself, can use these tools that you're capable of making the life changes in your life that you want. that's what i was trying to convey. diane bliss: well you surely have conveyed it, and with such clarity and ease and comfort, and that's the best part about learning something new. you know, espe

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i'm worried about the situation in the country of orman and straight across the straight of hormuz and if the strait were to shut down because of unrest in oman because of the iranian mischief we could see oil prices spike up to $400 a barrel and will hurt our rice farmers back home trying to export rice and grow rice for domestic consumption. it will hurt our chemical manufacturing. and speaking of the natural gas piece -- mr. akin: he maybe i could stop because i want to hit you with a g-wiz statistic because i'm kind of an old geezer and been here a while and watched voting patterns. here's something that might be interesting to you. and i tell this to some of my constituents back home. if i were to say the republicans and democrats in the house are divided on the abortion issue, people would go, no big surprise. i think it's interesting that if you look back over the years, at least the 10 years i've been here, the two parties are more divided on developing american energy than they are on the abortion subject. and i find that just amazing to me because it seems so obvious that we'