I really don’t get why this TED talk was considered controversial. Someone suggested to me that it was because it contained “proof” that supply side economics is bunk, that such proof is dangerous to The Man–and thus the effort to keep it hushed.

But I think the reason it was kept under the rug was not because it contained anything new, but because saying these things to an audience of venture capitalists was simply embarrassing to TED organizers. One of the points of TED, after all, is to lure VC money into funding the great ideas presented there.