“I think therefore I am.” That was the one certainty the philosopher Descartes could find after he set himself a discipline of radical doubt – trying to doubt everything, so that he would be left only with what was certain, starting with his own existence.
This exercise is useful after a week that changed the parameters of global capital markets, probably for generations. More news of huge import will come this weekend, as politicians in the US try to hammer out a rescue vehicle for the US mortgage market.
After this week, is there anything we cannot doubt?
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