of Armageddon can be quite entertaining. We all love a good disaster movie. To its credit, the blogoshere has skilfully identified its audience and marketed the mother of all calamity dramas.

Unfortunately, the stock and property markets have stubbornly refused to comply with the disaster movie script. It’s a fix! I hear you cry. Well yes, of course it’s a fix but the governments of the world do not consider it to be a fix. They see it as a white lie that will one day benefit us all. They might well be right. …read more