It should be obvious after this year that the stock market is no guarantee, another reason to take a closer look at life insurance.

FORBES: Estate Tax Insurance

Given that governments have missed so many obvious tricks, is there any reason to assume that more money thrown at the problem will be spent wisely?

ECONOMIST: Climate change

So for the world as a whole, if a financial transactions tax put a bit of a dampener on financial innovation and trading (whether low frequency or high frequency), that would probably be no reason to weep - unless (to state the obvious) investment banking is your life.

BBC: How scary is a financial transactions tax?