ultranomics

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 [...]

In this Ultraletter…… A Hollywood theme to tk’s contemplations, while jq is on Speed…………..

Reaching for the stars
23rd November 2008, TK

With America in the throes of its worst slump since the 1930s and the rest of the world not far behind, Americans have been keen to latch on to any glimmer of hope they can find [...]