Every day, one hundred thousand tonnes of metal are stolen across the UK. This is mainly copper, although there is a significant amount of iron also.
All of this metal needs to be replaced, as most of it can be quite vital to railway lines, the st...
According to a startling new discovery by a joint co-operative research team consisting of economists and scientists from both MIT and the London School of Economics, the current recession was in fact caused by an incensed and indignant supreme, omni...
New York City - In an unprecedented reversal, the Nobel Prize Committee has revoked its Economic Science Prize, recently handed to two American professors, and has re-awarded it to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
"Economics has been called 'the d...
Featured near a patio table outside the Handyman Hardware & Lumberyard in Waukesha, Wisconsin, two Boy Scouts from local troop #421 were hawking hot dogs to raise money for an upcoming camping trip. Their handmade poster-board advertisement was...
Berkeley CA: Professor Peso Krugerrand retired today as Chairman of the Economics Department of UC Berkeley after 50 years of teaching Keynesian economics. President Obama and Michelle made a special trip on Air force One to be with the administratio...
Based on the continued likelihood of QE3, the following is a satire based on Matthew 18:23-23
Once upon a time, a certain king in a land of ease wished to settle accounts. Usurers who owed billions were brought to him. The Usurers had bribed the gullible into burdensome loans they knew the debtors could not repay. Floundering beneath the loans, the debtors scoured nickels and dimes to pay wha...
Presenting at the UK jobs summit hosted by David Cameron with the leaders of most of the top 20 companies in the UK, an Oxford Classics Don revealed his new way to move Britain out of recession.
Professor Ira Glyfickx, originally from Belgium, put...
Dear Penguin-Wallpaper,
My nom-de-guerre is Francesca Nelligan-Spume and I live in a plant pot. The other morning at 3am, I was walking my Octopus 'Debussy' across South West England when my middle hand exploded on the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Apart from the fact that this bridge was Brunel's very first project, I am troubled by the mysterious Arab Chieftain who is never there when I get home...
Economists looked on in horror yesterday as stock markets plunged after diminutive pop sensation Justin Bieber admitted: "I won't be a pop star forever."
Experts fear that his admission will create such havoc in the markets that the world's econom...
Ken Lucid writes:
In 1979, Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich shared the Nobel Prize for economics for his work on the optimal allocation of scarce resources.
He pioneered the technique of linear programming, having developed the first model in 1939.
Complete and utter bastard!
By the time I was taking O-level maths, linear programming was on the syllabus and I hated it. Just could not get...
DETROIT, Michigan -- Scientists have discovered what appears to be the first known black hole resting near the automotive center of the Milky Way Galaxy. It apparently resides in a region known as the Big Three Halo, a vast sphere of sparsely populat...
New York, NY: Expectations for significant economic growth are foreseen in the second half of 2010, according to a blue ribbon panel of financial, economic, and business leaders.
Despite uncertain global economic conditions plagued by mounting i...
North Korea today advised Britain and America, to follow their policy of dealing with failed politicians. This follows the execution by firing squad of Pak Nam Ki, a North Korean politian who has been judged responsible for the financial collapse in...
Distressed citizens responded today to Obama's continued assault on the economic well being of the country, by sending thousands of personal S.O.S. messages back to the door step of the Out of Touch President.
Obama, busy crafting a new give awa...
Secretary of State Tim Geithner announced more bad news for the sagging U.S. economy as he announced Tiger Woods' wife, Elin, was moving back to Sweden and taking 25% of the nation's Gross National Product with her!
The now independently wealthy e...
Anchorage, AK; Washington, DC - A team of economists for President Obama crashed this weekend in the high mountains of Alaska, where snowmobiling still is possible in the summer.
A team of rescuers had found the wrecked snowmobile with the team of...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Veteran Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter recently shed himself of the GOP, joining ranks with the Democratic party. He says the switch serves as "a wake-up call" to Republicans, who collectively rolled over, hit the snooze butto...
Chicago, IL. The daughters of President Barack Obama, Malia and Sasha, had to be rescued out of a labyrinth by the fire brigade, when on a visit to Chicago this weekend.
When asked what they thought when lost in the labyrinth, the Obama daughters...