Money

Zuckerberg was on a roll …

February 2, 2012
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Mark Zuckerberg had it all. Most successful social media company in the world. Umpteen-billionaire in his 20s. Beautiful girlfriend. And presumably a Philippe Starck Lemon Squeezer. And then he got the Hippy, Hippy Shake, and innoculated himself with Social Management-Speak: Personal relationships are the fundamental unit of our society. Relationships are how we discover new [...]

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Tax Brakes?

August 30, 2011
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I saw something the other day, something utterly unremarkable in its banal common sense: “Give tax breaks to manufacturing businesses in areas of high unemployment” I mean, it’s obvious, isn’t it? When there is high unemployment in an area, giving tax breaks to businesses that use “less-skilled” people seems like such a good idea.If you [...]

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Revolutionary Cycle Light

August 12, 2011
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Not political, not media, not anything else – I just like it. Revolights are LED lights which fit on your bike wheel rim, and turn on and off as it turns, so as to give an arc of white light at the front, and a red arc at the back. I think it is probably [...]

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And was Jerusalem builded here, among these dark Satanic Mills?

August 9, 2011
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And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon England’s mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On Englands pleasant pastures seen! Is it not true that the United Kingdom is vastly overpopulated? All our resources stretched to breaking point, house prices crazily high because of a severe shortage and our precious pastures [...]

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What does $100m look like?

July 29, 2011
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There’s a brilliant visualisation of the US Government Debt, in $100 bills, starting with a single bill and ending in a comparison of a trillion dollars with a jumbo jet, over at with wfynoway. The pile above is $100m. It is surprisingly small, and will fit on a pallet. If I have my facts right, [...]

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Ed Balls in Fantasia

June 17, 2011

Thanks to Fraser Nelson for pointing out a world-class piece of carpet-bagging by Ed Balls MP, the Shadow Chancellor. In his “Speech for the Alternative” the Sorcerer’s Apprentice Economic Wizard showed how he was resolute when he was running the economy in the late 1990s: I would say that: – setting out tough fiscal rules [...]

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Septic Blather

June 7, 2011

The FIFA soap opera continues, and Placido Domingo, Johan Cruyff and Henry Kissinger have been drafted in to save world football. As Sepp Blatter put it: “These gentlemen are more or less advisers, they are not the experts but advisers and what they should be also is the kind of council of wisdom which my [...]

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