The President told us to compare the number of Americans killed by gun violence to those killed by terrorism. We did. It’s not even close.
Category Archives: Politics
Stock markets…
Created by Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Chief Investment Strategist Michael Hartnett, this illustration shows “free-float equity market capitalization” in billions of dollars.
World map with countries the size of their stock markets / Boing Boing
What was good for Germany in 1953 is good for Greece in 2015…
Economic assistance under the Marshall plan was important to both countries, but it was the granting of debt relief that made a difference to the Germans
What was good for Germany in 1953 is good for Greece in 2015 – The Guardian
Sir Nicholas Winton…
And the winner of the French elections is…
A workshop and not a museum…
You need to click through for this one.
Tony Benn’s secret suffragette plaque in the Houses of Parliament | Retronaut.
UK Tax…
Anxiety…
“By removing slack, airlines create failure. In order to increase profit, airlines work hard to get the maximum number of flights out of each plane, each day. As a result, there are no spares, no downtime and no resilience. By assuming that their customer base prefers to save money, not anxiety, they create an anxiety-filled system.”
Seths Blog: Eleven things organizations can learn from airports.
The worst part of this list is that it describes modern life; not just the worst parts of it!
Come and join the crisis…
What if money was no object?
I wish I could have found the words as well as this.
I wonder how many people gave up on a dream for the money.
In related news, often you hear bankers saying that they need to earn large amounts because it’s such an awful/difficult job. They should do us all a favor and give up for something else.