THE METROPOLITANS — Episode Fifty
A saga of everyday life in the Big L and a wry look at contemporary culture
By Tony Carden
Episode Fifty
The...
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India Raises Sugar Prices To Correct Problems With Earlier Government Mistake
India has just raised the minimum selling price for sugar in a bid to undo the problems caused by...
A Bad Mistake, India Moots Raising National Minimum Wage – It’s...
It's not surprising that this is happening, India mooting a rise in the national minimum wage. There is, after all, an election in the...
So Just Why Is The Eurozone Monetary System So Pants?
The answer being that the eurozone monetary system is neither well designed nor well run:
Monetary System
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California’s Very Silly Idea Of A Facebook Data Tax And Dividend
That California is where the rest of the United States goes to turn mad is obvious enough but there are still those incidents that...
Derry City FC And The British Way Of Brexit
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GCHQ’s Cipher To Queen – Not “Philip’s Looking For The Car...
Sadly GCHQ - the British bit of the spies that deals with codes, encryption and listening to people -...
Nazir Ahmed – A Peer But Not A Gentleman
There was a time when a peer was, by definition, a gentleman - that time is long gone of...
JP Morgan’s Crypto – Just The Million Pound Note Again
There's much excitement at the idea that JP Morgan has just become the first bank to launch a cryptocurrency...
Maurice Ampaw’s Menzgold Car – EOCO Is Right, That’s Not How...
The lawyer Maurice Ampaw has an interesting claim as to why he shouldn't have to give back the Toyota...
Ncube Is Right About The Zim$ Here – Liberalise The Exchange...
That Zimbabwe is still having problems with it currency and money supply is obvious enough, the debate is over...
Science Works Just Like The Economy – Large Means Innovation, Small...
It might seem a little odd that large teams in science mean development while small teams lead to disruption...
