Almost All Novels Are Improved

Financial Crises Are Like Fireworks: They Illuminate The Sky Even As They Go Pop.

The Year 2008 Was A Reminder To Those Who Had Forgotten That There Is Such A Thing As History And That The Cycle Of Famine And Feast In Commerce, First Identified In Antiquity And Well Understood In The Middle Ages, Was Not Suddenly Abolished In Modern Times.

For All Their Current Prestige, Osama Bin Laden And The Suicide Bombers Are Still Regarded In All But The Most Desperate Districts Of Gaza Or Peshawar As Romantics With Little Chance Of More Than Symbolic Victories, However Bloody And Brutal. That Gives Both The Middle East And The West A Small And Distant Hope Of Security.

There Are Signs That The Age Of Petroleum Has Passed Its Zenith. Adjusted For Inflation, A Barrel Of Crude Oil Now Sells For Three Times Its Long-run Average. The Large Western Oil Companies, Which Cartellised The Industry For Much Of The 20th Century, Are Now Selling More Oil Than They Find, And Are Thus In The Throes Of Liquidation.

When Gordon The Brown, In London In 1997, Commissioned A Great Inquisition Or Survey Of His New Realm, The Result Was The So-called National Asset Register (nar), Which Was Immediately Dubbed By The Boomers Of The Uk Treasury "the Modern Domesday Book".