Millionaire households in the US raked in $80 million in unemployment benefit during the economic downturn, due to lack of means testing in federal aid programs. (Bloomberg 5th April 2013). Which is why they are millionaires. Epicurus believed you should live modestly, but enjoy life. Money matters less than love, friends, a sense of humor, …
The spotlight effect describes how we exaggerate the amount of attention is fixed upon us in any gathering of people. A study showed that, for instance, a person entering a room wearing an embarrassing T-shirt imagines everyone is looking at him. The people carrying out the research assumed, before they did it, that half the …
ALEC, the anti-democratic and secretive organisation funded by big business to cement the primacy of profit over the interests of citizens and taxpayers has been proposing to penalize homeowners who install solar panels. This is part of an offensive against renewable energy on behalf electricity generators. ALEC aims to block all efforts to promote wind …
There is quite a serious movement in Sardinia to get the Italian government to sell the island to Switzerland. Why? because the Sardinians think that rule from Rome is a disaster, and that the infamous Italian bureaucracy is stifling life and keeping the island in the 19th Century. A poll in Switzerland shows that 93% …
Who makes the worst company chairman: a cokehead or a blockhead? Some will say the two go hand in hand – if you’re on drugs your command of the facts is likely to be hazy. Coke can also make people irritable, unpredictable and paranoid. “None of that is desirable, but it’s still better than being …
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