His belief in free market, free trade system is almost religeous. He believes the government should do nothing to regulate and macro-manage the economy and let the market take care of itself. Without any effective control, many people were doing risky, irresponsible things to benefit themselves which eventually get us into this mess. And his insistence on free-trade has caused massive migration of US technologies, capital and jobs to China, India and other developing nations and eventually leave the US economy bleeding to death