Cash in on education: Let’s turn the five-star hotels into third-level colleges

YOU remember the pictures. Of course you do. Guys in good business suits, standing on the sidewalks of American cities, selling apples. It was the definitive visual representation of the onset of the Great Depression.

It never made sense to me. I couldn’t figure out where they got the apples or why so many former millionaires decided that apple-flogging constituted a strategic career plan.

But at least they got out and flogged something. That’s the problem here at the moment. We’re fixated on NAMA, on banks, on developers and on business plans that are proving to be inaccurate, loans worth less than they should be, and the desire to punish.