Quote from IluvVol:
haha. thanks but I know what he said. You honestly believe all he says?

Quote from Lawrence Chan:
It is a criminal offense if he lies about his positions on TV when he was making those comments. His position size in commodities forced him to report to authorities too.
His opinion, however, should be taken with caution because he is a participating party with an upper hand - both in terms of his positions, and as a person in the society.
e.g. bankrupt those institutions => depression and huge job losses, etc. but it would not affect Jim negatively, not even a bit.
Edit: During such interviews on TV, many times the anchors failed to ask the necessary question - are you long/short the instruments you just commented on? A simple question like that will go a long way.
Quote from IluvVol:
you are so naive. This guy can say ANYTHING he wants on TV. Nobody forces him to tell the truth about his positions. If he wants everyone to enter into the oil trade on the long side again then he will make sure to be heard (of course after he got in again). I respect the guy and share most of his opinions BUT I dont believe a word he says about his positions. No trader in his right mind talks about positions in detail especially not sizable positions. But believe whatever you like...
Quote from Cutten:
Like Asia in 1998? Recovered fine within a year or two.
USA from 1928-32 was under Hoover, an ardent interventionist. Then FDR, an even more ardent interventionist. Look what happened.
Not sure how you can claim the 1930s were a failing of capitalism, when it was socialist law after socialist law that kept getting passed and kept unemployment in the 10-20% range for the only sustained time in US history. Notice how places like Sweden that followed the most laissez-faire policies recovered far quicker and didn't even have a depression, just a recession. The UK was less interventionist and suffered less than the USA (stocks fell 50% not 89%, GDP contracted far less).
The evidence doesn't support your assertion. The most recent Keynesian experiment was 1990-2000 Japan - didn't do well.