Welcome to www.ultranomics.com !
Our aim is to serve our readers with light-hearted banter along with dollops of no-holds-barred irreverence. You will usually find us nattering on about economics and daily-life type issues, sketching ideas with our broad paintbrush, and sometimes sweeping brush - using as a canvas the UK, USA as well as Pakistan, from where our genes hopped on a plane a generation ago. Nice one, mum & dad.

The Skyscraper Index

Whilst researching for our sister site, www.dubaipropertycrash.com, we were looking for interesting indicators to the dubai property market. In the process we remembered an out-of-the-box, less well-known marker of business cycles called the Skyscraper Index.
Could it be that the building of record breaking Skyscrapers could be used as a tool to predict the onset of [...]

Pakistan and India – In the Boxing Ring (Again)

Two such important economies of the Asian arena, Pakistan and India are at logger heads again! Well for the duration of this article, I’m going to be the referee. My scorecard will sometimes go against one contestant, sometimes against the other. To see who wins or if it’s a draw, you will just have to [...]

Happiness

Happiness is…..
Happiness is such a vague concept, one that means so many different things to different people. In economics terms I guess one could argue that happiness is that state of being which we spend our working hours in the pursuit of. There are those lucky few who actually enjoy the work they do and [...]