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

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

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

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".

We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.

People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.

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