“I should have saved my pennies like when I was just a kid, my piggy bank lasted longer than the bankers ever did” – a line taken from the Credit Crunch Anthem, one of a number You Tube offerings ranging from the brilliant to the naff, to be sung to the tune of ‘Candle in the Wind’. 

It’s my birthday weekend, and one of my nicest birthday presents is that the thing I studied at University – economics - suddenly matters again.

What a day. A learning sandwich.

Morning and evening spent in different discussions on what we can learn from the financial crisis. Lunchtime listening to CS Kiang of Peking University and Rajeev Dubay of Mahindra about the global sustainability crisis.