I said it before and said it again: Gordon Brown is a latter day Irving Fisher

"Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."

So said Mr Fisher just before the 1929 crash. 

Irving Fisher stated on October 21st that the market was "only shaking out of the lunatic fringe" and went on to explain why he felt the prices still had not caught up with their real value and should go much higher. 

On Wednesday, October 23rd, he announced in a banker’s meeting “security values in most instances were not inflated.” For months after the Crash, he continued to assure investors that a recovery was just around the corner.

Compare that with Mr Brown's statements...

I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.
Gordon Brown PM.
April 2007. -

Oh yes, remember our gold sold off on the cheap....

Todays stock market down with its biggest ever points fall, thats down faster than Peter Mandelson in a gay blow job market.
**Expect some urgent dithering from Brown & co.
Gordon Brown a man who makes me so angry I could punch his lights out

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