8/11/12

Gloom? This is a Golden Age

Fraser Nelson in The Telegraph : "Governments may be having a hard time of it, struggling with debt they ought not to have taken on. Noisy pressure groups who seek government funding may also believe that the sky is falling in. But a clear-headed analysis of the facts reveals something rather extraordinary. The crash has not even retarded, let alone halted, human progress. The world has never been richer, healthier, freer or more equal than it is today..." Read it all  [Thanks: BJS]