So I'm going to focus on what has been a little bit of the new asset class du jour commodities.
Some Tories who remember his pro-Europeanism and role in deposing Mrs Thatcher will never forgive him, but he cared about cities, cared about industry, and showed that, in politics, daring and a bit of flamboyance are assets.
"The ability to buy a little bit of 10,000s of thousands of assets is the kind of thing that you could only do a very large scale right now.
If they had paused, they risked sending a signal to markets that they lacked conviction, were slaves to market rather than economic forces and/or were far more worried than the average investor, the latter of which could have caused a fair bit of panic among risk assets.
More credit, extended more often, means higher asset prices.This bit of the book needs more detail, and some data on how his theory is supposed to have worked.
Many of Turkey's still-too-influential generals see the Turkish-run bit of Cyprus as a strategic asset, while some Turkish politicians regard the island as a bargaining chip in Turkey's quest to join the EU.
A bit of economic liberalization, and some brazen asset redistribution or consolidation: that's Putinism, and a picture of continuity.
For now there appears to be quite a bit of demand for well-leased industrial assets almost irrespective of their locations.
Costs paid for preparation of asset installation.
Jerome Booth, head of research at Ashmore Investment Management, is a bit of an emerging markets extremist, suggesting that people put 50% of assets into developing economies.
