Tom is a contributor to public debate on issues affecting our survival; works with a London and a South African think tank, is a working journalist and author.
Sunday, January 25, 2009 OLD RACIST WAR MOVIES - LIVE ON SKY NEWS (2 comments)
"People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
"All that is required for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing."
Edmund Burke
Saturday, December 13, 2008 Economic 'God Particle' Found
"A Giffen good is an extreme type of inferior good. The negative income effect of changes in price of a Giffen good is actually stronger than the substitution effect.
" This leads to its bizarre quality: when the price of a Giffen good rises, consumers actually buy more.
Thursday, December 11, 2008 ANCIENT BAILOUT
Learning from history.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 ON THE ECONOMIC BRINK! (8 comments)
We are changing very quickly from one economy to another, more practical one.
Saturday, November 22, 2008 THE OpEdNews 'THINK TWICE' OPTION (6 comments)
A light, non-partisan comment - an invitation to a discussion on OpEd's Think Twice' policy
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 The Hidden Hand Moved On (4 comments)
Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' wasn't perhaps what people thought it was, but, by the end of the industrial revolution and the beginning of the population level-out period, it had finished its work.
Sunday, November 9, 2008 Elliot Spitzer - The First Patsy in the Meltdown (4 comments)
A small but significant battle between the United States and the United States Government. The States lost.
Saturday, October 25, 2008 JIHAD? (6 comments)
A light (any) at the end of the today's economic tunnel needs some paradigms shifted around: Here's a couple that might need some.
Friday, October 24, 2008 The End of Capitalism (7 comments)
A debt-based, finite pyramid structure collapses after three hundred years