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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 [...]

Tales of the Unexpected

The new Great Depression - agent of Karma
17th November 2008, TK (co-editor)

One thing is for sure, always expect the unexpected. For the past decade the buoyant global economy has been lulling us into a false sense of security. We started to actually believe that this time it was different. Forget the dotcom crash, real [...]