If we accomplish that, then there will be time for politics later, but over the next year I think we can solidify this recovery and give people a little more confidence out there.

WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Press Conference

This could change in a month or several months later or in a year, but will they think of you then?

FORBES: Would You Hire Yourself?

But quite a lot of economists think that, sooner or later, the hundreds of billions that the Bank of England and other central banks have been pumping into the global economy will come back to bite us, in the form of runaway inflation.

BBC: Fairness and the welfare bill

But they might think that calm now, smooth and honest elections later, and an effective administration, no matter whose, would be better than continuing mayhem, whose cost is already reaching the shores of the United States in the form of drugs and refugees.

ECONOMIST: Haiti

Not if you want its shares cheap but yes if you think that its growth will translate into higher profits later.

FORBES: Rotten Facebook IPO Can't Stop Winners Like Palo Alto Networks

Mr Morris admits that even the biggest bubbles contain innovations that endure: think of collateralised mortgage obligations, which suffered a meltdown in 1994 but later transformed the industry, saving borrowers billions.

ECONOMIST: The credit crunch

Murray's call for a players' meeting before last month's Shanghai Masters did not eventuate in any action, and the Scot himself later stated that he did not think a strike was necessary -- but that the issue of fixture scheduling needed to be addressed.

CNN: Federer: Strike talk is 'nonsense'

Now, don't get us wrong, those charts and graphs made us pretty giddy about the superior graphics and improved battery life that AMD was promising to bring to affordable ultraportables, but then a year later, when AMD still had only PowerPoint slides to show for itself, we started to think "Fusion" was no more than a drunken fantasy.

ENGADGET: HP Pavilion dm1z (with AMD Fusion) review