The rule is that financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. - John Kenneth Galbraith

The more obvious features of the speculative episode are manifestly clear to anyone open to understanding. Some artifact or some development, seemingly new and desirable — tulips in Holland, gold in Louisiana, real estate in Florida, the superb economic designs of Ronald Reagan — captures the financial mind or perhaps, more accurately, what so passes. The price of the object of speculation goes up. Securities,

The only remedy, in fact, is an enhanced skepticism that would resolutely associate too evident optimism with probable foolishness and that would not associate intelligence with the acquisition, the deployment, or, for that matter, the administration of large sums of money.

If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.