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The people who run London, for example, love to boast that the city is attracting record numbers (17.4 million in 2014). And they want more. “They especially have their eye on the high-spending shoppers who currently stop in Paris.” For them, a “flourishing” tourist industry is the tourism hallmark of success – which it probably …
A few weeks ago Owen, a contributor to this blog, criticised the BBC news as being superficial and lacking substance. This got me looking more often and more critically at it in its broadcast and web page forms. I have to conclude that Owen is absolutely right. For instance, yesterday the BBC carried a story …
John Stumpf is the CEO of America’s most profitable megabank, Wells Fargo, which has 268,000 employees. His company has been operating in crisis mode ever since the federal Consumer Finance Protection Bureau hit the bank earlier this month with a $185 million fine, the largest penalty for consumer fraud the new agency has ever assessed. …
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“If you’re a woman, you will earn less than a man,” observed Theresa May in her first statement as British Prime Minister. An Institute from the Fiscal Studies confirms this fact. True, some progress has been made: the difference between the average hourly pay of men and women fell from 28% in 1993 to 18% …
We still don’t know what triggers depression. Pharmaceutical manufacturers claim that anti- depressants correct a chemical imbalance in the brain, but there is no proof that low levels of seratonin cause depression. Antidepressants do change how we feel, in a way that some find helpful and others don’t. But that doesn’t mean they are addressing …
