ultranomics

The world’s economy is floating about in uncharted waters, friends. You knew that though, right?
The economic leaders, i.e. the governments have no clue how this is going to play out. Neither do the so-called experts – the economists, the analysts, the commentators.
Due to the unmapped landscape and the all-pervading fear of this unknown scenario, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]