Matt T

Thursday, July 24, 2008

You'll get equal pay when you get off the beach

"Women shortchanged on pay" is common cry from groups like this, complaining the women's earnings are at a large discount to men's. Well it's not surprising is it when they spend so little time in the office? Article such as this, to be found in every tabloid newspaper today and tomorrow, are pretty damning evidence that groups of women tend to hang around beaches on work days. And it's the younger generation that seem particularly workshy. Note you don't seen any rapidly approaching middle-age men like myself in those pictures.

Labels: Economcs

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Holiday reading fact no.2

By the early 1960s, the private micro-farms that Kruschchev had sporadically encouraged in the Soviet Union and accounted for 3% of cultivated soil were yielding over 33% of the Soviet Union's agricultural output, and by 1965 2/3rd of the potatoes and 3/4 of the eggs.

Source: Same as below.

Labels: Economcs

Monday, January 21, 2008

Northern Rock

George Osborne lays out the alternative options:

"Then we could have some kind of Bank of England reconstruction or we could have some private sale options which until yesterday we were told were available," the Tory shadow chancellor said.

Labels: Economcs, Osborne