The Great One opines on an economic future where a run on the dollar collapses the US economy, sending global markets to very bad place. He also takes some responsibility for training the people who created the mathematical instruments which helped cause the crash, as Nassim Taleb would say, allowed the finance professors tolecture birds on how to fly.
Here's Samuelson:
Mea culpa, mea culpa. MIT and Wharton and University of Chicago created the financial engineering instruments, which, like Samson and Delilah, blinded every CEO -- they didn't realize the kind of leverage they were doing and they didn't understand when they were really creating a real profit or a fictitious one. There 's a lot of causality in economics, even though it's very far from an exact science.
[From An Interview With Paul Samuelson, Part Two - Conor Clarke]