There is another way

[just john]

''Sterlings finished'', said Jim Rogers the American investment guru with apocalyptic words about the pound and the country's economy. “The idea that you can fix a period of excess borrowing and excess consumption by more borrowing and more consumption to me is just ludicrous. Most Americans alive today won't be around by the time the last of this credit market mess is finally cleared away,”
Incidently, educated in England with a scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford
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After Jimbobs seemingly damning sentence, and Dave's demands that decisions on how to handle the downturn are so important that Britons should be permitted a choice between Brown's strategy and alternatives, it was good to see Terry Leahy spelling out his view of an alternative. (nb business man not politician)[8-|]

 Only-the-market-can-save-us-from-the-crisis.