You don’t say.
The whole “trickle down” economics concept goes contrary to anything you read in an economics book, actually.
The first introduction you get to Economics in high school contains such postulates as propensity to save (or consume) which directly posits that people will stash away excess of money or invest it for additional personal gain to stash THAT away in its turn. Spending is giving back to the economy; saving isn’t.
Untaxing the rich plays into their propensity to save MORE.
Russian universities introduced a new compulsory subject: The Scopes of The Special Military Operation in Ukraine
Hello CoSo
It’s been a week
My Dad’s in a bad way but life goes on eventually
Was listening to Shpongle today, Are We There Yet, and a beautiful quote was used there, I dunno, probably by Carl Sagan, but I’m not sure, I didn’t recognize the voice.
“We should worry ourselves not so much with the pursuit of happiness but with the happiness of pursuit”
Street survey in Russia asks what they think about a price hike for pills and medicines.
Answer: “Thank God we’re waging war on Ukraine! We shall suffer happily to ensure victory!”
Russia commandeers WWII era T-34 tanks from Laos to whom they were given decades ago.
Some publicists seem to take it as an indication of a rapidly diminishing military strength of Putin’s fascist regime
Russia demonstrates the fastest in the world rate of descent into dictatorship, falling from position 124 to 146 in the Democratic Index.
Russia's war on Ukraine has been accompanied by severe suppression of political rivalry, total censorship of media and widespread repressions. The Russian state can no longer be considered anything other than a dictatorship.
Air raid alert across Ukraine as missile-carrying jets take off from airfields in Belarus
I was born in the USSR and grew up in an ex-soviet "republic". Want an honest opinion on communism from someone who's experienced it firsthand? Ask me.