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I Think Investing In A Good Education Has Been Key For Me, Although The Investment Was More In Time Than Money.

Edward Conard Provides A Provocative Interpretation Of The Causes Of The Global Financial Crisis And The Policies Needed To Return To Rapid Growth. Whether You Agree Or Not, This Analysis Is Well Worth Reading.

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.

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.

Once You Run Current-account Deficits, You Depend On The Kindness Of Strangers. This Might Be The Beginning Of The End Of The American Empire.