Restoring confidence - If banks are sound we should say so

THE world’s most famous hockey mom, Sarah Palin, wants creationism taught in America’s classrooms and, as unsentimental, unforgiving capitalist evolution topples masters-of-the-universe financiers, it is easy to envy the comfort offered by the certainty inherent in Palin’s Old Testament beliefs.

Sadly, that comfort cannot be found in today’s financial markets as we are caught in a tsunami of uncertainty, worry and the feeling that we have all lost control over something very important in our lives.

There seems to be a growing acceptance too that this is not a five-day wonder, that it may take some years before we can hope to see a degree of certainty return to our financial affairs. But already, even at this early stage, there is a chink of light at the end of the tunnel.