Libya's leader, Muammar Qaddafi, said this week that if America was serious about striking those who harbour terrorists, it should bomb London, since so many wanted men have found refuge there.
With the integrity of the eurozone, one of the three great economic areas, in some doubt, it is seriously discombobulating for banks, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurers and central banks that the safe harbour of US Treasury Bonds, US government debt, no longer looks quite the comforting refuge in a storm that it once was.