Interesting Links for 02-08-2012
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andrewducker- Tax avoidance investigations into big businesses get more aggressive - and pull in nearly £1billion more
- The curious case of the blind man who could still see.
- Fifty Shades of Grey is now the bestselling book ever on Amazon - beating off Harry Potter.
- New drywall building material can cut buildings' energy consumption by 40% by stabilising temperature.
- I just pledged towards a Kickstarter for finding out how to make America more like Scandinavia
- Dan "Community" Harmon has _three_ shows in development. Yaaaaaay!
- Wrigley Co. Uses Bestiality to Sell Skittles
- Real life mech! Or possibly very nicely faked mech! Either way: mech!
- Cabinet discusses full nationalisation of RBS
- 007 - The Business of Bond
Don't forget to click "adjust for inflation" to see how the early movies compare. Particularly considering their budgets.
- Valve's Source Engine runs faster on Linux than it does on Windows.
- E-book festival aimed to attract 25,000 people - manged less than 100.
- Hamas blasts Palestinian official's Auschwitz visit
- No-frills savings plans outlined by the UK Treasury.
Can't see them being popular, myself. If the government wants a good baseline savings product it could do them itself, via the Post Office.
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Re: Saving was too COMPLEX for people?
Date: 2012-08-02 10:25 pm (UTC)Although some of the "savings products" were ones where you could end up paying more out in management fees than you would be making in interest. Having some protection against that seems reasonable.
Re: Saving was too COMPLEX for people?
Date: 2012-08-03 03:03 pm (UTC)Now is not a bad time for a fundamental overhaul of consumer protection in the financial services industry, but this is emphatically not that. This is a gimmicky scheme that, if it succeeds, will increase the savings rate - which is really, really not what we want in the middle of an ongoing deleveraging crisis.