[Caipirabob]

Wow, thanks for the post. Really, I don't see the cause for alarm. It's seems likely to me that there's some motivation to drive people into a panic.

[familyop]

"Mr Cameron accused the Prime Minister of presiding over a "huge expansion of public and private debt" during his decade as Chancellor.

Writing for The Sunday Telegraph, the Conservative leader declared: 'Though the current crisis may have had its trigger in the US, over the past decade the gun has been loaded at home.'"

And offering higher interest rates for savings didn't help. How long can a nation administer so much business that actually happens elsewhere?