No. 1253 January 2009

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• Cartoon: Free Lunch

• Cartoon: The Ire of the Irate Itinerant

• Voice From The Back

• Greasy Pole: Post Offices – Open or Shut?

• 50 Years Ago: Memorable happenings in 1958

• Book Reviews

• Cooking the Books 1: D-words

• Cooking the Books 2: Fictitious capital

• Pieces Together

• Material World: Congo – The mobile phone war

• Pathfinders: Ready, aim . . . Press Enter

• A booming industry even in a recession

• Five more benefits of not having money

• Education, politics and language

• Banks, money and thin air

• Obama – No real change

• In place of capitalism

• Letters

• Editorial: Capitalism Must Go