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Global economic Armageddon is nigh – so let’s tax the rich

LAST Friday morning Google offered me one of its irresistibly targeted ads when I punched "financial crisis" into the search box.

“The year 2008 marked the last of God’s warnings to mankind,” announced the blurb for a book called God’s Final Witness, “and the beginning of a countdown to the final three-and-one-half years of man’s rule that will end on May 27, 2012.” This was only marginally less apocalyptic than the commentary on the financial pages of the press.