Ever since the Federal Reserve started its quantitative easing program in response to the 2008 financial crisis, we’ve been hearing dire warnings about the threat of hyperinflation. Those warnings, it goes without saying, have not come to pass. In fact, if you want to look at what actual hyperinflation looks like, you should check out…… Read More What do you think you could buy with 175 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars?
Don’t really know what is playing at here. Beats has such a strong brand but could really benefit from some quality. Missed opportunity, or more to follow?
This is why they invented Uber, kids.
Why don’t they have more questions like this one?
My mate Tom (@scatmantom) undertook The Spartan Race earlier this month in Manchester to raise funds for The Christie, a specialist cancer care centre in North West England. The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres and treats over 44,000 patients a year. The Christie charity aims to provide additional services and care, over… Read More Foundation: The Christie
Following the recent ruling by the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) making marriage equality a reality across all 50 states, many questions have been asked in pockets of US society about what this means for them, and how they can get around this ruling (particularly in states which expressly banned same-sex marriage). Religion, beliefs, bigotry, persecution,… Read More Challenge the heteronormative: Pink Moon
Women don’t need chauvinism to set them back. They are already doomed by an insurmountable obstacle: each other. To hear directly from the mouth of the first woman I had respect for that a male Hollywood actor having penetrative sex on screen makes him a dirty bastard is, at best, prudish. To hear the female… Read More Women in art and life
Hello!
So summer finally arrived & I take advantage of the nice weather with a cycling detour home via Clifton Moor. Impulse buy an iPhone dock for all this summer garden lounging I have planned which runs off mains or 4 AA batteries. “Oh that’s fine,” I tell myself. “There are loads at home.” And so… Read More Summer, my friend! Where have you been?
The Pootling Flolloper 