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may I say that as well as the furore over Murdoch there is also the surprising resignation of Sir Howard Davies. When you consider that the LSE is the London School of Economics, and accordingly one would have expected that the world respected LSE would produce great economists.

However, is it any wonder if we produce such well respected economists, that somehow the economists never saw the 'Great Crash' actually coming. Same with the accountants, who signed off the accounts of the wonderful banks. How is it that the banks were run by bankers who were not actually 'bankers' they had no qualifications in banking. How is that the expert economists never saw the crash coming, and the accountants who were so well trained that they signed off the accounts.

So, whilst the media is distracted by events in the middle east, and the Murdoch empire, then when will there be an inquiry into how well educated our people are, yet they do not seem to be very well trained at all. 

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surely everybody must realise by now that Keynes was a theorist, there is absolutely no proof for his theory. All economists are theorists, they are not scientists, although they would like us to think that they are.

This recession will be different, the Great Depression was as much a state of mind as anything else. There have been so many Great Depressions, a bit like World Wars, World War One was not World War One until World War Two, before that it was the Great War. By the way it should be noted that it should not be commemmorated at 11 O'clock on the Eleventh November, it was ended at 11 O'clock in France, it was not 11 O'clock in England. It could be said that we are in the first World Depression, or the First Global Recession, history is being written, it was not 9/11 that has done for the economies, it was 9/15, and that will be looked at in a new light by the historians.

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