In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.
From Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.
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