According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Congressional Leaders have finally clinched a deal on the US debt crisis, similar to those letters I get from time to time from my bank offering to raise my credit limit (ok a few more zeros on theirs, but fair enough given I haven’t wasted $3 trillion on an […]
Category: Politics
Bravo Obama, and a reflection on Dubya
Change indeed. Let’s hope the actions are just as good as the promise! Stumbled across an old Matthew Parris article today which was fascinating reading 4 years after the last election – a discussion on how the neocons should be allowed the full 8 years to implement their “vision”, as that is the only way […]
How the next U.S. President could affect music
As I love statistics and analysis – especially the kind that other people do the hard work on – books like Freakonomics and Gittonomics are great for exposing the sometimes cute, sometimes weird, sometimes seedy reality underneath the glib catchphrases and slogans of modern marketing. One study I’d pay to see, even though it’s probably […]