Noel Terry October 15, 2013 President Obama’s historic appointment of the first female, Janet Yellen, to head the US Federal Reserve from January should come as no surprise. Nor should it come as a surprise that Obama’s poster-boy, Larry Summers, withdrew his candidacy a while back amid protests of his […]

Being an aviation/aerospace enthusiast myself, I have been recently attracted to look into the reasons behind the continuing struggles of India’s airline businesses. This idea of airline operators in India, choking themselves for profit and scrambling their way through their operations, trying to stay afloat is something that is worth […]

We have all felt it in one way or another. The pressure to conform to what is, socially, right or expected. This pressure can come from friends, family, the media. Look in any direction and I guarantee you will find someone telling you how you ‘should’ be acting. However, when […]

I have been off the single market for some time. However, with many friends and acquaintances unhappily single and seeking, I fear I have developed a rather warped image of the modern dating scene. In the movies, a girl meets a guy, there’s a few shy smiles, then phone numbers […]

There is growing unease in contemporary society over the revival of sexism, female objectification and gender divides. Writers such as Natasha Walter and Dr. M. Gigi Durham, as well as contributors to blogs and websites including Pink Stinks, OBJECT and the F-Word, have taken up the task of vocalising dissatisfaction […]

Economics, economics, economics. That’s what the 2010 UK election was about, and it seems to be the main thrust of the American one. Unemployment and job figures are the battlefield. Gross Domestic Product and AA+ credit ratings are the weapons. The Federal Reserve might be a potential ally, and the […]

You can be the cleverest person in the world and still find it hard to get a decent job. The interview process that people have to go through to get into good jobs these days is both rigorous and difficult. There are often twenty plus people applying for one position […]

Genesis Bitcoin is a digital currency that was founded in Oct 2008. Curiously, the founder, who always used a pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, begun to dissociate himself from any of the developments related to the currency from 2010. Nobody knows who he really is. The currency came into existence starting with […]