A long economic article from the UK on the root causes of the current economic problems. Lots of very insightful reader comments.
Apparently the Brit politicians tried to say it was all the medias' fault for pointing out the Emperor had no clothes on.
------------------------------------------- He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).