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But In The Financial Markets, Without Proper Institutional Rules, There's The Law Of The Jungle - Because There's Greed! There's Nothing Wrong With Greed, Per Se. It's Not That People Are More Greedy Now Than They Were 20 Years Ago. But Greed Has To Be Tempered, First, By Fear Of Losses. So If You Bail People Out, There's Less Fear. And Second, B Prudential Regulation And Supervision To Avoid Certain Excesses.

If You Worry About Financial Armageddon, It Is Indeed Metaphorically The Time To Stock Your Bunker With Guns, Ammunition, Canned Food And Gold Bars.

The Treasury Plan Is A Disgrace: A Bailout Of Reckless Bankers, Lenders And Investors That Provides Little Direct Debt Relief To Borrowers And Financially Stressed Households And That Will Come At A Very High Cost To The Us Taxpayer. And The Plan Does Nothing To Resolve The Severe Stress In Money Markets And Interbank Markets That Are Now Close To A Systemic Meltdown.

I Am Quite International. My Background, Born In Turkey. My Family Is A Jewish Family From Iran, So I Went From Turkey To Iran To Israel, And Then Grew Up In Italy And Ended Up In U.s. For Graduate School. So I Tend To Look At Things From An International Perspective, And I Think That Gives You A Little Bit Of A Broader View Of What's Going On.

I Think Investing In A Good Education Has Been Key For Me, Although The Investment Was More In Time Than Money.