The best sections detail how asbestos lawyers pushed their luck too far by trying to run thousands of asbestos claimants through the same litigation mill, this time claiming silicosis.
It is difficult to say howfar this trend towards satire and self-parody will run in a world where politicians appear to be less powerful and when they agree with each other on so many issues of substance.
The question facing many investors is howfar and how long the fall in prices will last and whether or not the bull run that has driven stocks and indexes higher has now broken.