Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.

I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction.

Hedge funds are a very efficient way of managing money. But there are clearly some risks. Hedge funds use credit and credit is a source of instability. Transactions involving credit should be regulated.

My main concern is with the world order

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.