The news is filled at the moment with potential horror stories about the world economy and it all has a very familiar ring. Forget about the nonsense you hear from economists and business news correspondents about the ‘economic cycle’, it’s all run like a military operation.

First of all, I should make the point, not that readers of these newsletters need telling, that the economic system is utterly, totally and completely, without any saving grace, insane to the point where nothing less than a padded cell is applicable. Or, at least it would be if its intention was really to serve the interests of the human race and our shared environment. But, given that its entire structure is there to enslave the global population, the apparently insane morphs into the truly brilliant ...