We didn´t start the fire

With the G20 meeting on this week it has been interesting to see the various countries taking up their traditional positions.

Obama and Gordan are obviously keen on pumping more cash into the economies, after all everyone knows that the best cure for a bad hangover is to drink a few beers the next morning, so why not increase debt to cure the debt problem.
Angela on the other hand seems to have outflanked them by shooting down this idea, showing the sensible and rational female approach which we all try to ignore, helped by a few other European leaders and even the head of the Bank of England.

When Gordon was travelling around South America trying to curry favour in advance of the meeting it was interesting to see the reactions from our Latin friends.
Most amusingly was Cristine Kerchner who didn´t seem to care what was discussed at the G20 meeting as long as they could take over the Falkland Islands without another embarassing invasion, and of course Lula who, perhaps unknowingly, gave a smarter answer than he might have realised.

His response was that the crisis was all caused by white people with blue eyes, so they could fix it and not involve indians, blacks and other minority groups.
As mentioned, this hypothesis is not too far from the point.
All US presidents since Nixon have had blue eyes, according to the freakonomics blog in the New York Times, including George and Bill, which is quite something considering only 16,7% of US citizens or 1 in every 6 has blue eyes, down from 50% in the year 1900.

Of course Tony Blair also has blue eyes, perhaps this is why a large proportion of the American people were calling for him to be the next US president during the early stages of the Iraque war....or maybe they thought that anything would be an improvement.
The Japanese were excluded from this theory, but then again their economy seems to have been screwed for so long now that perhaps they were given the benefit of the doubt...and of course Madooff who has brown eyes but hey, every theory can have a statistical outlier.

At least with Obama we seem to have broken this trend (unless he is using colored contact lenses which doesn´t seem likely) and can look forward to a brown eyed economy for the next 8 years at least.