You underestimate the number of households who made their millions from nothing. Being born poor can be a huge motivator.
This little piggy went to market, This little piggy stayed at home, This little piggy had roast beef, This little piggy had none :cool:
The "news" is that it's Sunday night = gap up time? :cool:
Let's just say if the PIGS had their own currency (EUR SOUTH) and Germany, Benelux, France & Finland had another (EUR NORTH) then the PIGS one...
An overnight, rapid collapse in asset prices and wages sounds good in economic theory to bring about a supply/demand equilibrium, but would likely...
Never gets old on NFP Friday: <object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie"...
Didn't he predict social unrest, riots and mass murder in the streets of America for 2009? Oh well maybe in 2010 :cool:
You're mixing up Nazi Germany (1933-1945) and the hyperinflation Weimar Republic (1919-1933) :cool:
Just trade 10x your normal size. The 5 points will feel like 50 :cool:
The health aspect is an excellent point. I had the opposite experience weight-wise though, I think when I worked in under two years I gained (!)...
Boom and bust periods and incredible bubbles and depressions all over the world are part of economic history of the last 250 years, IMO they are...
The day I quit my first and only salaried job after university will forever remain in memory. I can perfectly relate to your feelings. I felt...
Pushing small countries around? Warning? Iceland went belly up, maybe you missed the news. Iceland should be nuked instead of just pushed...
I read some article the other day about an internal meeting the German Bundesbank (their central bank) had about how to deal with potential PIGS...
I would assume the metric of "dollars spent at the cinema per visitor" (including soda, popcorn, nachos etc.) is painting quite a different...
Gone with the Wind came out in the late 30s I believe, in the middle of some of the toughest economic times. Adjusted for inflation it is the...
The infamous "tick in front of the streamroller"? :cool:
Your example makes a terrible mistake in confusing questioning authority with genuine curiosity. Many of the kids that were taught to question any...
IIRC, the labor productivity in the former communist part of Germany today is still below the levels of e.g. the Czech Republic. The Czech...
Try Munich. It's the "Anti-Berlin", but still cosmopolitan, lots of high quality dining and arts/culture events, very safe for a big city, good...
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