In the last week, stock markets the world over have been showing the classic signs of bipolar disorder: euphoric, manic, hysterical highs followed by the deepest depression. But, as Gerry Gold reports, there are clear external causes

Should we be comforted by the recent ‘rallying’ of the stock market? Gerry Gold thinks not.

Gerry Gold is hardly surprised by the latest financial crisis. And the solution is not to prop up the system that brought it about, as our politicians seem to think