Market Prices Are Always Wrong.

There Is No Question That A Breakup Of The Euro Would Be Very Damaging, Very Costly, Both Financially And Politically. And The Biggest Loss Would Be Incurred By Germany. Germans Have To Bear In Mind That, Effectively, They Have Suffered Practically No Losses So Far. Transfers Have All Been In The Form Of Loans, And It Is Only When The Loans Are Not Repaid That Real Losses Will Be Incurred.

America Felt Victorious And Generous After World War Ii. They Had Also Learned From The Mistakes After World War I When They Imposed Punishment On Germany. What Became Of Germany? A Nazi Dictatorship Which Threatened The World. Today's Germany Doesn't Feel As Prosperous And Generous As America Then. But Actually, Germany Still Is Very Prosperous.

The Us Needs A Cap And Trade System With Auctioning Of Licenses For Emissions Rights. The Revenues From These Auctions Can Be Used To Launch A New, Environmentally Friendly Energy Policy. That Would Be Yet Another Federal Program That Could Help Us To Overcome The Stagnation.

A Global Economy Is Characterized Not Only By The Free Movement Of Goods And Services But, More Important, By The Free Movement Of Ideas And Of Capital.

I Used To Be Opposed To The Idea Of Social Entrepreneurship. I Said, You Know, Let Business Be Business, And Philanthropy Be Philanthropy. Keep The Two Separate, Don't Mix It Up, And This Is What I Did, And I Did That Rather Successfully, But I Now Recognize That Actually You Do Need To Mix It Up And I Think There Is Room For Social Entrepreneurship.