A great video here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTbull07#p/u/13/fOshw4kIGR4

A little over the top but still priceless…

My advice, plainly speaking… Criticise their politics not their character. By criticising their character you're running the risk of appearing to discredit their economic expertise. The story becomes confused.

Yours plainly, Unclear.

Perhaps you are right in that I could have been more diplomatic. Being ungrateful is ugly and unworthy.

I am certailny most grateful to the traders for their analysis and to people like Denninger for his unstinting efforts to put up a credible analysis. And I certainly said so in the acknowledgements in the book.

But I can't dissemble and pretend that I share very much of the general political outlook expressed in places like Ticker and Zerohedge. And I know Denninger and the folks at Zerohedge would have nothing very good to say about my personal political leadings.

They have a deep and oft expressed loathing for anyone and anything green or left. I don't take it personally nor does it put me off from learning from them the good things they have to say.

That they and I have so very little in common, so very few reasons to be well disposed to each other, it makes it all the more striking that we share a view of what has gone on in this debt debacle. And it was this confluence of otherwise ill disposed people that I was trying to make clear.

I'm afraid I do find many of the opinions expressed on the Ticker and Zerohedge to be quite awful. With few notable exceptions they regard all those on welfare as "leach fuckers" to use one of the common terms in use on the Ticker.

But that said, you are right. One genralization does not make another any better.

All I would say is that I would not very much tailor what I had to say no matter who I was talking to. One of the Quaker ideals I try to live up to is plain speaking.

But I stand corrected. Plain speaking should not act as a cover for rudeness or a lack of gratitude to those from whom I have accepted help in the past.

If it helps – you or them – I apologize for making sweeping generalizations and rude ones at that.

You speak very well, no retakes in front of a live audience.

I know I wasn't your intended target for that speech but there was one thing that I found somewhat unpalateable…

On the one hand, you describe how these 'Traders' forums' helped you see the light with regard to the causes of the crisis and to the likely effect of actions taken. Denninger personally helped you out with corrections the 'Another Citi Bailout' blog and your blog on the environmental effects of Globalisation seemed to be inspired by his writing too. I could go on.

Then on the other hand you describe these people (3:18) as "Awful" and then make a fairly crass generalisation about the type of people they are. That wouldn't be so much of a problem except that you linked to the video of you making these comments on the site that they've just started to link to; much to your evident pride and to your benefit.

I can see that there is a problem with what PR people call 'Positioning', in presenting market players' ideas to a room full of Greens but there should be a better way, away that doesn't come across as so profoundly ungrateful.

Hope you take the criticism as it was intended, strictly constructive, and I look forward to seeing the rest of the clips.

Yours constructively, Unclear.

Thank you for asking. Sadly at the moment I have no plans for a London talk. I will try to arrange other talks but it depends on hearing from enough people in an area or a group who are already there (Anti-cuts, Green Party Quakers or any other interested group).

Thanks for asking though.

Sean, you make very good points about mass delusion, but perhaps this is the only way so many people can exist cheek by jowl without turning savage. Scenes from Lord of the Flies spring to mind.

However, this is clearly not an excuse to carry on regardless. We will need to learn to be tougher or give our children strong survival instincts rather than molly-coddle them.

I bet Mr Assange has escaped the communal funk.

Do we only wake up when there's a knock at the door?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DioQooFIcgE