Newsweek/ The Economist: Quotes of the Week

"To call banks casinos, as is often done, is actually unfair to casinos, which are required to hold certatin levels of capital because they must be able to cash in customer's chips. Banks have not been required to do that for their key derivatives contract, credit default swaps." -Fareed Zakaria, "The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed is Good (To a Point)," Newsweek, June 22, 2009
The Economic crisis in a nutshell. -M.P.

"Britain complained to the United States that it was not consulted about a deal under which for men held at Guantanamo Bay were sent as refugees to bermuda, a British territory. Hundreds of locals demonstrated against the decision to admit the men, all Uighurs from western China. The Uighurs went fishing." - The Economist, June 20th-26th 2009
Why is everyone afraid of Uighurs? They are being released, and they are harmless. -M.P.

-Martin Page