They are experiencing what we cannot even imagine!

The Société Générale rogue trader scandal has caused more problems than any of the main players possibly could have imagined.

Argentina's current actions may drive us back to the 19th century more quickly than some investors would like.

Steeped in denial, the Federal Reserve is treating the disease as a cyclical problem deploying the full force of monetary accommodation to compensate for what it believes to be a temporary shortfall in aggregate demand.

The advances that have taken place in astronomy, cosmology and biology, in the last 10 years, are really extraordinary to the point where we know more about our universe and how it works than many of you might imagine.

Yet the treatment prescribed for this malady has compounded the problem. Steeped in denial, the Federal Reserve is treating the disease as a cyclical problem deploying the full force of monetary accommodation to compensate for what it believes to be a temporary shortfall in aggregate demand.

But let us imagine what was unimaginable even a few months ago a world where the present diminution of conflict holds, and where discussions between Israel and Palestine arrive at a mutually acceptable recognition of each state s sovereignty.