Let Those Who Will Write The Nation's

Companies Are Not Charitable Enterprises: They Hire Workers To Make Profits. In The United States, This Logic Still Works. In Europe, It Hardly Does.

An American Economist Of Two Generations Ago, H. J. Davenport, Who Was The Best Friend Thorstein Veblen Ever Had (veblen Actually Lived For A Time In Davenport's Coal Cellar) Once Said: "there Is No Reason Why Theoretical Economics Should Be A Monopoly Of The Reactionaries." All My Life I Have Tried To Take This Warning To Heart, And I Dare Call It To Your Favorable Attention.

In Every Mutual Fund Prospectus, In Every Sales Promotional Folder, And In Every Mutual Fund Advertisement (albeit In Print Almost Too Small To Read), The Following Warning Appears: "past Performance Is No Guarantee Of Future Results."

Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa. Mit And Wharton And University Of Chicago Created The Financial Engineering Instruments, Which, Like Samson And Delilah, Blinded Every Ceo. They Didn't Realize The Kind Of Leverage They Were Doing And They Didn't Understand When They Were Really Creating A Real Profit Or A Fictitious One.

Anyone With Special Abilities Earns A Differential Return On That Flair, Which We Economists Call A Rent. Those Few With Extraordinary P.q. (performance Quotient) Will Not Give Away Such Rent To The Ford Foundation Or The Local Bank Trust Department. They Have Too High An I.q. For That.