Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.

Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.

The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.