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Category Archives: ECONOMICS
Would I lie to you?
Now would I say something that wasn’t true … oh sorry, that Eurythmics tune always plays in my mind [and now yours] when I think of those words, which I do surprisingly frequently. And isn’t it nice, as these intelligent fellows … Continue reading
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I have said it before, and I’ll say it again
the more things change the more they remain the same, or there’s nothing new under the sun, or the only constant is change, or … balderdash. I read or heard recently, and you’ll just have to trust me on this … Continue reading
Posted in ECONOMICS, LIFE, RANDOM
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To prove the upper classes have still the upper hand …
The stately homes of England How beautiful they stand, To prove the upper classes Have still the upper hand … So wrote the social satirist Noel Coward in the 1930’s, and while we agonize correctly 80 years later about that … Continue reading
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I am wondering about starting to read the news again
but I really question my sanity. I have been much happier being ignorant of the daily noise, and as far as I can tell, it has not made me a worse citizen or denizen of this frozen nook. If I … Continue reading
Posted in ECONOMICS, LIFE, RANDOM, RANTS
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So I’m a sentimental old fool, bite me …
One of the more remarkably consistent aspects of my life has been the ritual watching of A Christmas Carol, Dickens’ masterpiece, on Christmas eve, brought to life with uncanny perception by Alistair Sim. How can you miss someone you never met? … Continue reading
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It’s the Bee’s Knees
It took a while for the linguistic penny to drop, but I finally realised that the bee’s knees were covered in pollen, because that’s where they collect it when they are out and about being bees. Those really are the … Continue reading
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It’s -20 and my compost has frozen again. So sorry.
I know it is the height of banality to discuss the weather, but it does seem a little early for this deep freeze, and while glancing at the forecast I noticed they are predicting ‘snow showers’ for next week. Yum. … Continue reading
Posted in ECONOMICS, RANTS
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More ideas, this time from a self-appointed philosopher king
It is irritating but common for privilege to not recognize itself or reveal appropriate humility as it bellies up to the bar to snorkel up the caviar at a fancy state dinner, so my attitudes towards this man’s writings are … Continue reading
Posted in ECONOMICS, LIFE, RANDOM
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Ideas are fascinating things
It has always (well, maybe not when I was three) fascinated me that until someone thought of something, other people hadn’t. I realize that it is impossible to ever really identify the origin of an idea, and there are always … Continue reading
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Optimism, resiliency and anti-fragility
Mikey and I were discussing life this morning, as we often do, and analysing recent events in our lives, and I quoted my brother, for the zillionth time, saying that a diamond in a dung heap was still a diamond. … Continue reading
Posted in ECONOMICS, I AM FINALLY AWAKE, LIFE
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