It has been a masterful fight-back by the big banks. We the paying public can't do anything much except admit defeat and settle back for the next set of bills. In the meantime, perhaps, we should try and think of a name for the new economic system, which certainly isn't capitalism ... The most accurate term would probably be "bankocracy".

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.