He's funny too. And he's skeptical as hell which is probably what happens to you when you are drawn to the carny scene. It's also a really useful tool to carry around with you.
He has no trouble in sharing his opinions with people. That's cool. A site like this is full of opinions. Everybody's got one.
But I'm going to go out on a limb and point out that he isn't an economist.
So when he says,
Obama tells us that we can spend our way out of debt. He tells us that even though the government had control over the banks and did nothing to stop the bad that's going on, if we give them more control over more other bank-like things, then they can make sure bad stuff doesn't happen ever again.
I'm going to think that he's representing our current crisis based on an opinion.
When he says,
Maybe the United States borrowing more money than I could imagine in a billion years with a billion computers and a billion monkeys typing on them, will get us out of financial trouble. I really don't know. It's certainly true that many counterintuitive things are true, and when you have the guts to do something counterintuitive that works, it's really cool.
I'm going to suspect that he hasn't read much about the Great Depression.
And when CNN gives him a national platform to reduce the current crisis to a snarky 13 paragraph essay which shows evidence of very little thought, I'm going to feel a little cranky that this is what passes for journalism these days.