Technology Is Spurring Innovation, And The So-called

If You Worry About Financial Armageddon, It Is Indeed Metaphorically The Time To Stock Your Bunker With Guns, Ammunition, Canned Food And Gold Bars.

Having Spent 10 Years Studying Emerging Markets, I Know That You Have Patterns Repeated Over And Over Again. A Bubble Is Like A Fire Which Needs Oxygen To Continue... When You See There Is No Oxygen, Things Change.

But In The Financial Markets, Without Proper Institutional Rules, There's The Law Of The Jungle - Because There's Greed! There's Nothing Wrong With Greed, Per Se. It's Not That People Are More Greedy Now Than They Were 20 Years Ago. But Greed Has To Be Tempered, First, By Fear Of Losses. So If You Bail People Out, There's Less Fear. And Second, B Prudential Regulation And Supervision To Avoid Certain Excesses.

We're Essentially Continuing A System Where Profits Are Privatized And...losses Socialized.

I Believe, Unlike People That Are Totally Free-market, Laissez-faire Fundamentalists, That There Is An Important Role That The Government Can Play - One, In Providing Public Goods, Whether It's Education, Health Care, Or Other Things, And Two, Supervising Countercyclical Policy - Stimulus, Whether It's Monetary, Fiscal, Or Otherwise.