Articles that praise and bury the monarchy, America’s second thoughts about leaving Iraq, Garth Turner’s take on Jack Layton, the case for lower corporate taxes, on empathy, why the Arab uprising has legs, frightful discussion of European fiscal crisis, and why the commodity boom has hurt Canada.

Like a frog that will sit in a pan of water that slowly comes to boil and will not jump out to save itself, investors may want remember the extraordinarily benevolent conditions that central banks have put in place since March 2009 and consider what happens when they end; Bianco and Rogoff help us with just that.

Our case for including the Green Party in the official leader's debates with pro and con articles, also various types of fallout from the disaster in Japan, link to a charity art auction for Japan in the Big London, useful primers on taxation in the OECD countries, the Libyan quagmire, Bill Gross's very serious warning about US debt, and Warren Buffet's warning about American democracy.

The 'will they or won’t they' let Elizabeth May join the leader’s debate has flared up again.

Japan’s $2 trillion in overseas assets and the long standing authoritarian governments in the Middle East which guarantee security of oil supply priced in US dollars to the high income countries are both in the crosshairs of the earthquake-tsunami-meltdown and Islamic civil war.