Learning through mistakes

Just a short update today with two IHT articles and what I think are the two most insightful quotes from each:

"A commercial economy as large as ours should not be built on a short-term funding apparatus."
U.S. bailouts need transparency

"You don't ever want a crisis to go to waste."
Franklin Delano Obama?

Again, the silver lining: there are many lessons to be learned from this economic crisis.