The depressing housing market
I keep seeing these contradictory reports regarding the housing market and it makes me wonder if it’s government propaganda or the media trying to mislead us.
First, they said that housing prices were going up. This was a marker that the recession was improving. I really have not seen much improvement in the recession when the [...]
Will work-week opt-out help or hurt?
What will the working week opt-out mean for the UK? There was considerable debate when the EU limited the weekly work time to 48 hours. However, several member states have opted-out of this directive. First of all, it seems rather strange that the EU even allowed the opt-out. It means that not all of their [...]
Feminist movement has not helped with women’s rights
Chivalry is dead. This has been said many times over and I cannot help but feel that the feminist movement and ‘equal rights for women’ have contributed significantly to the death of this institution as well as others. Am I the only female to complain about the lack of chivalry? Does it mark me as [...]
Call to celebrities – Shop! Spend! Help!
I don’t know how Confessions of a Shopaholic is doing at the box office, but I for one, do not care to see it. After seeing Sophie Kinsella give a reporter advice on how to shop during the recession, the determination was cemented. Perhaps, she only meant to be funny, but it seemed that she [...]
When and will the economy turn around?
I am no economic expert, so my statements may sound ridiculously absurd and ignorant. However, listening to all these pundits expressing their predictions about the way the economy will go makes me wonder what they are basing their statements on.
OK. The economy is shrinking. What happened? The banks messed up so badly that they had [...]
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