Derivatives - The risk never leaves the system - It finds taker who believes the risk is acceptable....until they lose everything. - Ziad Abdelnour

There is a major difference between theoretical knowledge and
experiential knowledge. Academics think they know how the economy
should work; successful business owners know how the economy does
work. They have been there and done it. Our government should be
turning to those who have experiential knowledge when it comes to
solving our fiscal problems. They would realize that many of their
current policies may sound good but don’t work in the real world
and must be abandoned. They would spend less and live within their
means. They would be promoting the creation of more entrepreneurs
and business owners, instead of hiring more bureaucrats, consulting
more academics, and enlisting more lawyers to harass and prosecute
the true wealth creators of this nation.

I strongly believe that the best economic policy
for any administration is the one that seeks to produce more entrepreneurs,
not just more minimally educated college graduates with
nowhere to go. Nothing against recent college graduates, but many
of today’s best universities are no longer providing the basics of a
classical liberal education.

That is why the single most important economic issue of our
time — and one that impacts the poor and middle class alike — will be
how we treat the entrepreneurs and wealth creators among us, from
both the government and the private-sector viewpoints.

Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful.