How our financial system got into such a mess, the lessons we should learn, and what we can do about it.

Self-organizing systems don't need managers.

Bureaucracy jams up big business just as much as big government.

Bankrupting the government always ends in violence.

Getting the government out lets markets grow - and the opposite too.

Why does Congress always have to go the unworkable monolithic route?

Even Fidel Castro knows communism doesn't work.

Medical mix-ups are common and deadly, but the FDA won't allow changes.

If the government does it, it's not fraud?

A change in government regulations made the mortgage crash far worse.