Confidence

Confidence in the context of economic recovery I suspect is a gradual thing , like a personal micro  trade balance concept. Some people start to accumulate disposable surpluses and so start to spend if enough finds its way into the domestic economy then employment starts to increase and so on. BUT beware bubbles in Credit and House prices. The well qualified and connected tend to get through the rest stagger.

Messages form the past we should never forget Nazism Hitler

"The reader" - Interesting issues
1) Seduction of young boy by an older woman
2) At what point should doing your job be compromised by human suffering
3) What are you left with when you can't read or write - emotions?
4) Guardian review
5) The sadness and shame of some of our action
6) Parents spend alot of effort on their children BUT how much interest do they take in their parents


See also Judgement in Nuremberg

Adam Smith

“A letter from Adam Smith to concerned capitalists”

What Adam Smith might say in this amoral age