If you stretch out both arms to represent all time on earth, then with one stroke of a nail file you could eradicate all human history, and 98 per cent of all human history was spent in the stone age.
I always thought Blair was referring to the fact that the world economy had prospered throughout his time in office, I may be wrong!
However I stand by my original post on this. There was always going to be a redress at some point, some economists had warned of the levels of debt worldwide. I don't remember any of them warning of a recession of this magnitude.
Nobody wins, unless everybody wins
it was going to happen soona or later (going bust),to much greed in the world etc,you have 1 half starving and the other half with a massive obesity problem,no money for one half ,while the other half live in a fantasy rich man's world,new cars,loans,credit cards galore,holiday's 3 times a year,property ownership,all why we were earning a pittance on national minuim wage or slightly above lol,we will come through this slow down,so nobody panic,,also have you noticed how much nicer people are since all this economic crises,theres a comming together which i think is fantastic,worth more than any stupid credit card lol
lifes good ,but even sweeter under the stars