Friday, March 24, 2006

Litter or be fined!

A man was fined £50 for throwing away his junk mail. He was charged for dumping his domestic refuse in a public bin! This is insane! Mind you, with the NHS spending £9m on art in the last two years when it has a £900m deficit they need every penny they can get.

P.S. One single hospital spent £70,000 on a large polished rock and hired an art director for £41,000pa when it alone has a £30m deficit.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

I do still exist

I haven't seen anything recently that has made me want to post, but I do still exist, I promise. Currently I am a student, this means that cashflow isn't really a word I know much about. This means that I am certainly not a rich person, and disposable cash doesn't really exist. I haven't really made this point before, and although I hadn't realised it until now, I think it's woth mentioning that capitalists are not nessesarily all rich. As a low or at times non earner each pound from my income which is taken in tax affects my earnings to a larger degree than it would if I were earning millions. This does not mean that the rich should be taxed more, that's simply unfair, but although the rich are often the ones to campaign for tax cuts, it is actually the poor and middle class who would often benefit the most.

I have just started a new blog detailing the movements of the FTSE 100 and my trading. For those of you not intetrested in the market it may not hold much for you, but it is the only place that you will be able to see exactly how I trade and all of the things I have learned about the market. In a similar vein I will be starting a poker blog to detail the lessons I learn in making money from my favorite card game. I'll post here again when this is up. All links will be posted on the right hand side of this page.