Discount The Obvious, Bet On The Unexpected

I Passionately Disagreed With Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's Plan To Bail Out The Banks By Using A Public Fund Called The Troubled Asset Relief Program (tarp) To Help Banks Take Toxic Assets Off Their Balance Sheets. I Argued That It Would Be Much Better To Put The Money Where The Hole Was And Replenish The Equity Of The Banks Themselves.

The Bureaucratic Method Of Building An Integrated Europe Has Exhausted Its Potential.

Discount The Obvious, Bet On The Unexpected

I Put Forward A Pretty General Theory That Financial Markets Are Intrinsically Unstable. That We Really Have A False Picture When We Think About Markets Tending Towards Equilibrium.

I'll Tell You What I'd Do If It Were Up To Me: I Would Establish A Strictly Controlled Distribution Network Through Which I Would Make Most Drugs, Excluding The Most Dangerous Ones Like Crack, Legally Available. Initially I Would Keep The Prices Low Enough To Destroy The Drug Trade. Once That Objective Was Attained I Would Keep Raising The Prices, Very Much Like The Excise Duty On Cigarettes, But I Would Make An Exception For Registered Addicts In Order To Discourage Crime. I Would Use A Portion Of The Income For Prevention And Treatment. And I Would Foster Social Opprobrium Of Drug Use.