Save Darfur, argues Mamdani, is the newest colonial power in a long history of colonial abuse. Its call for justice in Sudan is “really a slogan that masks a big power agenda to recolonize Africa”.

Corrupt new administration deepens and expands systemic criminalization and war agenda

Conventional Keynesian policies - fiscal and monetary expansion on a national basis - cannot solve the problem but will make it worse.

The household wealth effect on personal consumption expenditures has been documented, but stock prices have a statistically highly significant impact on private capital investment as well. Such analyses suggest that much of the recent decline in global economic activity can be associated directly or indirectly with declining equity values. (?!)

The panic of 1837 triggered the first global depression, lasting seven years. Alexander McNutt, governor of Mississippi, labelled English banker James Rothschild a blood brother of "Judas and Shylock".

Who are the speculators then? Those who were buying protection on Lehman often to hedge their counterparty risk; or those who were selling the protection while thinking that the Fed and the Treasury would bail them out as they had in the past?

What took the global economy three years to achieve between 1929 and 1932 might take us less than a year.

The main risk for British children, it said, was that their selfish parents were too busy chasing their own success. The culture of individual fulfilment for adults was making the lot of children much less happy than a generation or two ago.

The $9.7 trillion in pledges would be enough to send a $1,430 check to every man, woman and child alive in the world. It's 13 times what the U.S. has spent so far on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Congressional Budget Office data, and is almost enough to pay off every home mortgage loan in the U.S., calculated at $10.5 trillion by the Federal Reserve.

Sir, I'm thinking of applying the logic George Soros applies to the credit derivatives market ("The game changer", January 29) to the purchase of my new car.