New Audio CD     Even in the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, New York knows how to throw a party. For most of yesterday hundreds of thousands of people made a sea of green that paraded up Fifth Avenue to mark St Patrick’s Day. Tens of thousands lined the street to watch them. The all-day party, fuelled by imports of Guinness and whiskey, seemed the more intensely engaged upon as an escape from omnipresent financial gloom. Away from the party, the mood in America’s cultural and business capital is more firmly anchored in stark reality, and … Continue reading President Barack Obama: Perhaps He Can’t Fix It. . .