• his multicultural and linguistic background = multifaceted view and wider range of sources.

• avoidance of modelling - as I understood the reference to Bubbles Greenspan, he follows the micro to draw conclusions about the macro ie anecdotal indicators.

• Keynsian view = the debt/govnt argument.

• outsider = damned by whatever he said, so he might as well tell it how he sees it.

His description of the 'subprime financial system' is the Anglo Disease by another name.

You can't be me, I'm taken