(He watched his own magazine, a kind of Asian-American Vanity Fair, grow to a circulation of 200,000 before it folded in 2001 after what he called a "Faustian bargain" with the Internet world).
And in a defence of his own sector, he argues that without vibrant banks you can't get a vibrant economy - and without that you can't have a fair, growing and stable society.
Indeed, given fair growing conditions, it could even rise; only a number of devastating poppy blights stopped last year's crop from being the biggest ever.Another reason to be cautious is that Afghan opium dealers have shown a remarkable deftness in their manipulation of the market.
And I'm eager to see the fair grow over the coming years.
Art fairs grew on top of art fairs.
Over time the fairs grew into festivals, occupying such large venues as the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington and Magic Johnson Theater in Los Angeles.
Art is truly the final frontier of e-commerce and at the time a particularly exciting space to work in as galleries, auction houses and art fairs grow their online presence and increase their number online transactions.
Some fairs grew into major international events, falling into a set sequence during the economic year, with the Stamford fair in Lent, St Ives' in Easter, Boston's in July, Winchester's in September and Northampton's in November, with the many smaller fairs falling in-between.
Fairs grew in popularity as the international wool trade increased: the fairs allowed English wool producers and ports on the east coast to engage with visiting foreign merchants, circumnavigating those English merchants in London keen to make a profit as middlemen.
If you want to understand the Islam as Prophet Muhammad taught, you will learn it at the historic Qur'an exhibition and massive book fair that grows every year at Jalsa UK.
