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Cornish Easter Skydiving
Read more: Cornish Easter SkydivingTurns out to consist of listening to the hail this Easter. Ho hum.
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Speed and congestion
Read more: Speed and congestionDriving to and from Cornwall for Easter reminded me that much of the congestion and inconvenience we see on dual carriageways and motorways is due to lorries passing one another. We saw one lorry pull out to pass…
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Interesting info and a fascinating chart: “Charting The Banking Crisis – A Boomerang Demo”
Read more: Interesting info and a fascinating chart: “Charting The Banking Crisis – A Boomerang Demo”“Interactive tools that chart the strain on the larger US banks from mortgages. Shows banking portfolios from the go go days of 2002 up to the troubles in Q4 2007. The charts require flash to view.” read more…
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Partial nationalization of the US banking system possible?!
Read more: Partial nationalization of the US banking system possible?!“We can no longer exclude a partial nationalisation of the American banking system, modelled on the Nordic rescue in the early 1990s.” Just a writer’s opinion I suppose, but what a thought. And where will this stop? read…
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The Iraq war suffered from “a lack of thought”
Read more: The Iraq war suffered from “a lack of thought”Ex-Downing Street chief of staff Jonathan Powell told BBC1’s Andrew Marr show: We made lots of preparations for humanitarian disaster, for the lack of water and that kind of thing. … What we hadn’t, in my view, really…
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Coskata: next generation ethanol?
Read more: Coskata: next generation ethanol?Try searching Digg for biofuel: it’s not encouraging, but Coskata may be: Coskata is a biology-based renewable energy company. Our technology enables the low-cost production of ethanol from a wide variety of input material including biomass, municipal solid…
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UK not prepared for credit crisis fall-out
Read more: UK not prepared for credit crisis fall-outThe awful state of Britain’s finances in the face of the credit crunch. Will we soon hear that joining the Euro is “the right thing for Britain”? read more | digg story
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Comparative advantage
Read more: Comparative advantageI found this brilliant article, which explains why famous intellectuals commenting on international trade baulk at basic concepts, in this case comparative advantage. I particularly enjoyed the author’s first suggestion for what can be done: (i) Take ignorance…
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Flat Tax
Read more: Flat Tax“So weak!” or “So what?” – David Cameron was pretty clear what he heard Ed Balls say at the time… Whichever, it set me thinking about flat tax. What if income tax: Had a single, flat rate? Had…