David Cameron said this today: “For me the root cause of this mindless selfishness is the same thing I have spoken about for years: it
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This comes from here, and I don’t think he’ll mind (read from bottom up, of course):

As the FT notes: Turbulent markets have played havoc with the finances of the UK’s corporate pension schemes. One key official measure has shown that
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And although not embeddable (don’t know why) look at this too. And then realise how ludicrous credit ratings are.

It’s been a fascinating few days (in between the continually depressing news) to monitor the language being used about the economy. I have an impression for the
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Fascinating article from John Kay in the FT this morning in which he says: The considerable assets of governments are generally not available to their
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From Joe Stiglitz in the FT this morning: But the real answer, at least for countries such as the US that can borrow at low
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Simon Jenkins is the sort of annoying columnist with whom you have on occasion to seriously agree and sometimes seriously disagree. I guess that’s a merit. This morning he’s on form,
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