The Images taken in this article provide a fascinating insight into life in North Korea. It isn’t as if any of us actually know what’s going on.
The Power of Literature
The First Line of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars is mesmerisingly brilliant.
“Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.”
Beautiful!
Surpluses and Deficits: A History
In the Weekend Australian today a fascinating article about the Australian Government’s record on Surpluses and Deficits.
“Since the outbreak of World War I a century ago, there have been only 18 budget surpluses, 10 of them achieved under the government of John Howard….
Deficits are not a problem provided there is strong economic growth, and through the 1950s and 60s Australian registered tearaway growth rates averaging 5 per cent.
However, Australia has had a succession of budget crunch points, such as the one faced by the Abbott government now, where big budget turnarounds were required to keep faith with creditors or to control inflation.”
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