Thursday, July 22, 2010
Quote of the Day
If we have a US slowdown with a fresh financial crisis, everybody is going to want to buy the Swiss franc, along with bottled water, tins hats, and a shotgun. —David Bloom, currency chief at megabank HSBC, as quoted by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in "Swiss endure safe-haven agony from euro flight"
Tags: Swiss franc, currency, great recession, economic depression, fall of the West
Monday, July 19, 2010
Conservative Acknowledgment of the Day
Of course there is not one lever you can simply pull to create a big society. We should not be naive enough to think that simply if government rolls back and does less, then miraculously society will spring up and do more.
I am so disappointed. Here I was, thinking that the only thing society needed was for the government to reduce taxes and get out of the way of the capitalists.
Tags: news and politics, big society, conservatism, David Cameron, UK, Great Britain, volunteerism


