Mr Leeson said more children were being diagnosed with autism and emotional and behavioural needs.
Imprisoned and awaiting deportation to Singapore, Leeson started to reflect and accept responsibility for his actions.
As ever, there are contrarian economists around and Peter Leeson is just one such.
Leeson, who turns 29 on Feb. 25, is presumably repeating the same nuggets to Singapore authorities.
Public perception of him as a symbol of capitalist greed may precede him, but Leeson doesn't shirk the responsibility.
"Prison was tough, " said Leeson, who now found himself mixing with dangerous criminals from the Chinese and Malaysian underworld.
Leeson paused for a moment, before recalling the darkest days of his incarceration.
The name of the man who sold those Japanese options was Nick Leeson.
In 1995, the London finance house of Barings collapsed after huge losses run up in Singapore by trader Nick Leeson.
Leeson also tells of encouragement from his London bosses, who were under the impression that he was making big money.
Nick Leeson, the trader who sank Barings, was not just in charge of trading, he kept his own books too.
In his book The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates, Peter Leeson explores how cooperation emerges in pirate societies.
After his release from solitary confinement, Leeson was diagnosed with colon cancer.
It wrought dreadful devastation, and buried Mr Leeson's hopes that his bets on the future level of Japanese share prices might ever come good.
It is hard to make a wholly boring film out of Mr Leeson's extraordinary story, but the makers of this one have done their best.
After leaving his desk and fleeing with his wife to Kuala Lumpur, Leeson resurfaced days later and was arrested in Frankfurt at the age of 28.
Nick Leeson told everyone he was doing pure arbitrage: in his case between futures contracts on the Nikkei (the Japanese stock market index) and the Nikkei itself.
Leeson was punished, put in solitary confinement for 31 days.
Leeson overcame his illness, and set about rebuilding his life.
But whereas it may be easy to identify a rotten banana, it is harder to be sure which trainee will be the next Nick Leeson and which the potential George Soros.
The trader himself, Nick Leeson, was a soft-hearted sap who started on the road to perdition to cover up a blunder by a junior colleague, and appeared to think he was dealing in cappuccino options.
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