content: I agree.  He lost me with that laissez-faire crap too.  There are a lot of capitalistic potential that is lost with regulations.  It is too hard for new players to produce valuable goods and services.  Take the conflict in the middle east for example..  Someone could make a fortune selling nuclear weapons to small tribes.  It is only rational to maximize profits and leave regulation behind.  Banks should be able to loan me money for international arms trade contracts.  Would it be chaos?  Over the short term, yes, but within a year or two we would have recovered stronger than we were before as bad actors were purged from the system.