“Tim Geithner should be put in jail with Bernie Madoff.” “The United States is Canada’s Mexico.” “You should register your stocks in your own name, as protection against the time when the Internet crashes, and stock ownership records are lost. ” Those are just three of the unusual–and unusually candid–remarks I heard last week at the 49th annual Contrary Opinion Forum in Vergennes, Vermont. It was my 23rd year of attendance at the forum, and I was fortunate to meet many old and new friends there. But the heart of the forum is the talks by some of the...
