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If The Financial System Has A Defect, It Is That It Reflects And Magnifies What We Human Beings Are Like. Money Amplifies Our Tendency To Overreact, To Swing From Exuberance When Things Are Going Well To Deep Depression When They Go Wrong. Booms And Busts Are Products, At Root, Of Our Emotional Volatility.

Collaboration Is Risky. If It Fails, If The Occupation Is Wound Up Prematurely And The Bad Guys Come Back To Power, You Might Find Yourself In Some Serious Trouble.

All Empires Have Depended On Local Legitimacy And Local Collaboration; They Are Not Based Primarily On Coercion. An Imperial Rule That Relies Wholly On Coercion Can't Endure. It's Too Expensive.

So Much Of Liberalism In Its Classical Sense Is Taken For Granted In The West Today And Even Disrespected. We Take Freedom For Granted, And Because Of This We Don't Understand How Incredibly Vulnerable It Is.

Between 1980 And 2000 The Number Of Patents Registered In Israel Was 7652 Compared With 367 For All The Arab Countries Combined.