The Dividing Line Between Wish And Need

Even Before He Came To Power In 1997, Gordon Brown Promised To Change The Accounts To Parliament From Simple Litanies Of Cash In And Cash Out, To A More Commercial System That Took Notice Of The Public Property The Departments Were Using. This System Is Known As Resource Accounting.

A Century Ago, Petroleum - What We Call Oil - Was Just An Obscure Commodity; Today It Is Almost As Vital To Human Existence As Water.

Governments Of Rich Countries Spend Some $6bn Of Tax Money A Year On Disaster Relief And Development Aid Overseas, While Each New Earthquake, Famine Or Tidal Wave Can Attract 1,000 Aid Organisations, From The United Nations Children's Fund And Oxfam To The 'jesus Brigades' Of The American South And Other Charitable Adventurers.

Bulls Don't Read. Bears Read Financial History. As Markets Fall To Bits, The Bears Dust Off The Dutch Tulip Mania Of 1637, The Banque Royale Of 1719-20, The Railway Speculation Of The 1840s, The Great Crash Of 1929.

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.