Losing Your Capital Is Like Losing Your

The Prevailing Ideology Of The Modern West - Which Is Political Economy - Is In The Doghouse. Having Failed To Notice Atmospheric Pollution, The Economists Then Frightened Themselves With The Sort Of Financial Crisis They Said They Had Abolished.

Financial Crises Are Like Fireworks: They Illuminate The Sky Even As They Go Pop.

Profits In Business Always Depend On The Rate Of Interest: The Higher The Interest, The Higher The Rate Of Profit Required.

Saudi Arabia Operates According To The Belief That God Made Young Men And Women So Utterly And Completely Without Self-control That They Must Be Physically Segregated Every Moment Of The Day And Night.

For All Their Current Prestige, Osama Bin Laden And The Suicide Bombers Are Still Regarded In All But The Most Desperate Districts Of Gaza Or Peshawar As Romantics With Little Chance Of More Than Symbolic Victories, However Bloody And Brutal. That Gives Both The Middle East And The West A Small And Distant Hope Of Security.