Thanks, Alen. We agree :-)

Thanks, Alen - yes, in some ways the current emergence of Europe is a kind of validation of the creativity of chaos and its superiority as a creative medium over rational planning. Each step in the unfolding situation draws on previous errors and somehow by muddling through something rather powerful is happening in a largely unrecognised manner.

Thanks, Robert. Yes, the question of what is real wealth and what is just numbers and what is actually negative is complex and would present many challenges but is much needed nonetheless.

Thanks for your comment, Tom. A bit over-strong, I think. The fact is that most people do feel concerned about the bonuses paid to bankers and I'm sure that if it were up to Mr-and-Mrs average there would be such a capping. I don't think it is that bankers are to blame for the economic crisis, though some obviously did have a hand in rash investments in the housing loans market, but there is a general sense that a situation where some companies are propped up by the government so that they do not go bankrupt is bending the rules and if the money that is used to do this propping up then finds its way into the pockets of the leaders of the failing companies then you do not have to be a genius to work out that something has gone wrong.