Studying Economics Is Not A Good Preparation

At Times Of Recession, Running A Budget Deficit Is Highly Desirable. Once The Economy Begins To Recover, You Have To Balance The Budget. But It Will Also Need Additional Revenues. Should The Government Not Receive Them, We Will All Get Punished With Higher Interest Rates.

Start By Assuming The Market Is Always Wrong, So If You Copy Everybody Else On Wall Street, You're Doomed To Do Poorly.

If Truth Be Known, I Carried Some Rather Potent Messianic Fantasies With Me From Childhood Which I Felt I Had To Control, Otherwise I Might End Up In The Loony Bin. But When I Made My Way In The World I Wanted To Indulge Myself In My Fantasies To The Extent That I Could Afford.

I'll Tell You What I'd Do If It Were Up To Me: I Would Establish A Strictly Controlled Distribution Network Through Which I Would Make Most Drugs, Excluding The Most Dangerous Ones Like Crack, Legally Available. Initially I Would Keep The Prices Low Enough To Destroy The Drug Trade. Once That Objective Was Attained I Would Keep Raising The Prices, Very Much Like The Excise Duty On Cigarettes, But I Would Make An Exception For Registered Addicts In Order To Discourage Crime. I Would Use A Portion Of The Income For Prevention And Treatment. And I Would Foster Social Opprobrium Of Drug Use.

Merkel Has Realized That The Euro Is Not Working, But She Cannot Change The Narrative She Has Created Because That Narrative Has Caught The Imagination Of The German Public, And The German Public Has Accepted It.