Questions for the new world

Our need for a greener, life-enhancing economic model should make us seek answers in the unlikeliest of places

Perhaps it was when investigators realised that a mortgage had been given to an "M Mouse" that the depth of the banking crisis became apparent. Throwing money that didn't really exist, at cartoon characters that weren't real, meant something horrible was bound to happen. And if the old banking system was more vulnerable than people realised, what other things, built on fantasy...