This is so powerful in the conventional wisdom right now. I love the Daily Show like everyone else does. But literally [Jon Stewart’s] answer to every issue is Congress should pass a law. [People think you can] solve any problem by passing enough laws.
I don’t see the world getting less dramatic. I don’t see the world calming down.
The loop we’re in now is that people are getting upset and disappointed by the stock market. There are no growth stocks, which means there’s no growth. Stock market returns have been weak for 15 years, which is exactly what you’d expect if you took all the growth out. Everyone is upset the stock market isn’t performing. The worse the results get, the more regulation you get. It’s in its own kind of doom loop. Unless something happens to shock the system a lot, our assumption is it gets worse, not better.