Why in modern times is Fiat and not Gold the currency in use?
There is little to describe in terms of the benefits of paper currencies, apart from mentioning the obvious fact that they are the dominant mode of exchange for all nations in the world. This sometime skews the view of an individual to believe [...]

Isn’t it wonderful to work for a broken system? Or even more pertinent question, to vote for Right Honourable candidates to represent us (more like milk us of our money and spend it). These past few weeks have been a revelation for all those workers who spent hours scratching their heads trying to come up [...]

Terrific Atimes article, on the Islamic solution for Pakistan…
—-
Ideas before bullets
By Asim Salahuddin
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KE01Df02.html
The current crisis of militancy gripping Pakistan is the most serious threat to the integrity of the state since the loss of East Pakistan in the war of 1971 that led to the creation of Bangladesh.
Pakistan today is surrounded by hostile neighbors, is [...]

Media conditioning tends to play havoc when trying to judge a book by its cover. I always thought the book ‘Catch-22′ by Joseph Heller would be a complex spy thriller, with the protagonist stuck in a no-win save-the-world-or-save-the-girl type situation. After all, that’s how the pundits always frame the term ‘catch-22′. In fact I continued [...]

What a dumb question to ask!
This question and similar ones are usually thrown into the political and media circles to re-visit the exhausted subject of integration. Ever since 9/11 and more particularly after 7/7, the debate about being British and its ramifications have started to become more imposing and trying to shape a dominant  public opinion [...]

For all of the biting rhetoric that is thrown against the US, it is seemingly a point of embarrassment, that nearly every nation in the world is forlorn by its tie to the US dollar. The dollar is the tell-tale mark left on confrontations and wars in every continent, it is the multiplier of force [...]