If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown we should simply ban complex financial instruments, unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run. This is what we do all the time with other products-drugs, cars, electrical products and many others.

The free market doesn't exist. Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.

Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.

We are not smart enough to leave things to the market.

Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.

Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.

Culture changes with economic development.