Financial Experts and Economists - why are we still paying attention?

Apparently the IMF has decreed the British economy will suffer more than any other developed country. Watching the BBC's Newsnight tonight a variety of politicians referred to this prediction and actually appeared to be taking it seriously. Other bankers and economists were quoted on the programme and much the same people are appearing on all sorts of other programmes telling is just what is going to happen to our economies over the coming months. These are the same people who either utterly failed to predict the current crisis before it started or in many cases actually caused it through their involvement in the financial scams which brought this about. And we're still taking their advice. We're listening to the morons who either failed to notice this coming or are directly responsible for bringing it about. Why?

Experts from banks that have lots billions of their own and their customer's money are still sending pundits onto BBC programmes to give us the benefit of their expertise when they missed the biggest single financial event in nearly eight decades. What manner of fool selects these people as sources of information?

My photo seems to attract bondage fans

I don't quite know why but the image attached to this post has attracted two bondage fans who have both favourited it. What is it about patterned socks that attracts this sort of attention? Most odd, but any interest is welcome.