I can drive. Let's just say you don't want to be in the passenger seat.

Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.

I felt I was owned by possessions.

In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU - nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.

Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.

The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance, good governance or a certain kind of governance makes a huge difference in our lives.

If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.