It turns out that most of the governments in the world have some sort of stable-value policy, in this way also giving up most, if not all, of any ambitions to manage their economies with money-jiggering.
And I'm just wondering, what about the effect of this sort of second generation, the post-civil rights generation, and the effect that this will have upon the move into - because a lot of these people are already middle class - but the move into sort of the stable middle class, particularly for people who had not been part of it previously?
No even moderately stable future looks possible without some sort of co-operation between Iraq's American occupiers and its Arab, Persian and Turkish neighbours.