Meanwhile in cloud cuckoo land...

...we find lunatics making the case for privatising the issuance of currency.

Beware - wing nut heads exploding ahead!

I am sure that our reasonable and ever respectful friends on the American right will join us in applauding Paul Krugman for winning the Nobel Prize in Economics. Right?

Maybe you can fool all of the people all of the time

You can certainly fool most of them as this Gallup poll about attitudes to income redistribution clearly demonstrates. Most Americans really do believe in the "trickle down" Ponzi scheme.

Econ 101

Those great British national treasures, the Johns Bird and Fortune, explain the intricate functioning of the financial markets (from the South Bank Show).