Recently I seem to have come across an inordinate amount of horrifying headlines, which I thought I would share with you; not because I have some ghoulish interest in all things horrible but because when you read something that horrifies you, it makes you think and speaking personally, it always makes me resolve to be […]
This article I read in the Washington Post about the apology tendered by the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to its indigenous people shocked me. The reason it shocked me is because I did not know that Canada, a country I perceived to a benign, egalitarian and welcoming democracy has actually been guilty of a […]
I remember when I was a teenager, someone gifted me some miniature samples of Rive Gauche, Opium, Paris, designer fragrances from Yves Saint Laurent, and if I shut my eyes I can still recall those fragrances, and to this day Opium remains one of my favorite fragrances in the world!
Yves Stain Laurent or YSL died […]
Yes my dear reader. High oil prices are here to stay. You ask why but the price of oil has run up so much lately? Well, there are two reasons for that, one is speculative and second is fundamental. I will go through both the reasons so you may have a better understanding of what […]
In all my years as a teenager and then as an adult, the name of Aung San Suu Kyi has cropped up from time to time in the news, a brave woman non violently battling the might of the Burmese military junta ceaselessly now for decades. It was when she won the Nobel Peace prize […]
The “Hemline Theory”. The belief is, traditionally, hemlines rise in accordance with the economy and they fall when the economy is bad or a stock market fall. So short skirts mean a bull-market? Rising prices?
This is not all unsubstantiated you know I have some facts for you here; this economic indicator was coined by a […]
It is a Vodka advertisement that has recently raised American hackles, prompting the ultimate withdrawal of the advert and an apology from the Vodka Company to boot! If you look at the Yahoo questions on this issue, you will see just how many hackles! Lots of people pissed off enough to say they will boycott […]
