First, is <3 a heart? That is what I’ve run with – but it always looked like an ice-cream to me! I have just seen this awesome 1 page paper by some mathematicians (ht William J Polley). Why is awesome? Well it talks about some ideas they had about studying society – and what they […]
Boing boing links to an article on economic reporting in the United Arab Emirates: Instead of moving toward greater transparency, the emirates seem to be moving in the other direction. A new draft media law would make it a crime to damage the country’s reputation or economy, punishable by fines of up to 1 million […]
In a Herald editorial the possibility of weakening the CC during a recession is put forward. To be fair, the article is saying that the people that want to weak the CC are missing the benefits – but the article still states: If conditions deteriorate badly, there may just be a case for temporarily relaxing […]
There is a popular story going around that rental growth has slowed because of rising numbers of “accidental landlords”. These are people who brought a new house to move into – but haven’t been able to sell the old house, and so have become landlords. Now, given that we are supposedly in a position of […]
Sadly Bernard Hickey has stopped posting at his Show Me the Money blog. Luckily he still has the Rates Blog to post on. On the sad side, Dismal Soyanz and Partially Unexpected have gone quiet. But on the plus side, as of last month Anti-Dismal is back. I hope New Zealand can keep a good […]
A great illustration of intergenerational transfers in action: Source(* Dilbert Cartoons)