Photo owned by maveric2003 (cc)What caused the latest world economic crisis? Toxic Credit products? Sub-Prime Mortgages, Galway races tent, ninja morgages, Massive bonuses to executives? No none of these were the cause of the latest crisis they were simply the cliffs we were pushed off. But they were not the push that sent us [...]

Some people seem to be going all philosophical of the twenty major departure. Now I never read twenty it didn’t appeal to me, never found it funny maybe that is just me. But overall his departure does not bother me that much. Anyway the above poster mentioned that Twenty said the blogosphere had changed in [...]

Groth in education spending. 1990-2001. From Spatial and Social Inequalities Research Group in the Uni at Sheffield 

 
Growth in Scientific Research. 
 

So if you look at the USA you see that growth in spending did not quiet lead to increase in science while also zero growth in the UK lead to loads of growth in Science. Why?

It is generally thought that taxing the rich more will generally reduce the economy as the drivers of the economy, the rich will work more with more money in their back pocket. This is usually to do with them being able to spend more and thus boost consumtion. But prephaps it has other effects that [...]

As you may have noticed. We now have a comic on the site. We hope this will now be a weekly feature that you the readers will enjoy. We are still learning about this so any tips or suggestions you have about them please added them. And drop us a comment.

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From Mary Harney
‘‘The Ireland story was never about replacing crony capitalism with casino capitalism. Ireland’s 20-year-old story is not a speculative play,” she said.
Really considing the last few years was based on property speculating I have to wonder. Maybe over the course of the last 20 years it might not be alot but over the [...]

Snapped this in Wales during the weekend in Pendine.