William Gildea

Gloomy Domestic Product

The Beatles made it fairly clear that money can’t buy you love, but it also can’t buy you much happiness. That’s the latest from the University of Warwick’s Eugenio Proto and his team of economists. In their study, they found that after a country attains an average income of £23,000,...
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Posted Dec. 13, 2013

Branded Politics?

Talkshow host, comedian and notorious celebrity Russell Brand recently called for revolution. I don’t really have a problem with what Brand wants, give or take. But there’s something wrong in his outlook. It’s not his vagueness; it’s his damaging attitude to politics that is stifling this country’s democracy that is...
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Posted Nov. 19, 2013