While the Greek welfare state collapses and society suffers rises in rates of suicide, murder and HIV, Kenneth Dart can sit back on his 220ft yacht in the Cayman Islands and count his winnings.
* National Insurance Contributions Bill/ Finance Bill These bills will be used to implement a guarantee that there will be no rises in rates of income tax, VAT or National Insurance before 2020.
In practice, money supply responds to demand, partly because monetary authorities do not wish to see the dislocation of capital markets that would follow if monetary stringency produced very large rises in rates of interest.
Given that even relatively modest rises in rates will hurt, the aim is to use macro-prudential tools (as credit controls are now called) to limit both the pace at which borrowing costs rise and the level that they have to rise to.
Other developed countries have noted similar rises in rates of female incarcerations (Kong and AuCoin 2008; Ministry of Justice 2012).
Recent interest-rate increases following a low-interest rate spell may boost sales of real estate, as buyers rush to capture property loans before further rises in rates.
