The only man speaking any sense was once again our old friend Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed, who told an audience at the annual Asia Oil and Gas Conference in Kuala Lumpur: ‘Governments should once again control their currency and stabilise it. Then world trade would be less risky and would grow faster. With expanded world trade, the oil business and economies generally would prosper. This is far better than trying to stabilise the world through force of arms [that] will not succeed.’ {read here}