Wow. Excellent piece today in the Globe & Mail, Heather Scoffield interviewing Niall Ferguson, an economic expert from Harvard. Accessible, readable, incredibly blunt - the questions are pertinent, and the answers make for one of the best things I've read yet on the mess we're in, where we might be headed, why and when.
Take ten minutes to read it, or tab it and read it later. When the headlines are such a mess every day, with 'predictions' from the very people who failed to see the sky falling last year (even though it was falling in their own backyards), this is a refreshing, unvarnished view in uncertain times, based more on historical considerations and less on the ramblings of people who just want to get re-elected.
Ferguson is actually a very good historian as well. If you enjoy historical stuff his book "The Pity of War: Explaining World War One" is an excellent hypothesis on the cause and effects of WW1.
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