A new era dawns in economics?
NEW British prime minister Liz Truss is being criticised for the “gamble” mini-budget introduced recently, in which taxes will be cut and people will receive assistance with their gas bills, all this to be funded by borrowings, the whole shebang to be paid for by economic growth. Many economists are aghast.
But how about this? A single British ticket holder has won the £171 million (about R3.3 billion) jackpot in the EuroMillions draw.
What if it turns out to be Liz Truss? What will the po-faced economists say then? But even if it’s not her, is this not economic growth on an unprecedented individual scale?
Imagine if the British punters were to absolutely pour their savings into the next EuroMillions draw, what the national benefit could be.
This could come to be known as the Liz Truss Gamble Economics Era, a golden age undreamed of by the po-faced bean-counters of the economics faculties.
Go for it, Liz Baby – you gotta be in it to win it!
Exciting discovery EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL water has been discovered in a meteorite that crashed into a driveway in the Gloucestershire town of Winchcombe, in England, according to Sky News.
The scientists are very excited. Some 12% of the sample was made up of water, and offers a lot of insights since it was the least contaminated specimen to be collected, according to Ashley King, a researcher in the planetary materials group at the Natural History Museum.
“The composition of that water is very, very similar to the composition of water in the Earth’s oceans,” he told the British Science Festival.
“It’s a really good piece of evidence that asteroids and bodies like at Winchcombe made a very important contribution to the Earth’s oceans.”
We’re not told the reaction of the person into whose driveway at Winchcombe the meteorite crashed – excitement or simply ho-hum.
Wild raccoon
A WOMAN who took a wild raccoon into a North Dakota bar, in the US, faces criminal charges including “unlawful possession of furbearers”.
Erin Christensen, 38, says her family found the raccoon at the roadside and named him Rocky, according to Associated Press. But that’s illegal in North Dakota. Rocky has been put down (even though he tested negative for rabies) and Erin faces charges.
They’re tough in North Dakota.
Unlike Maritzburg where an East Griqualand farmer once took his prize-winning Afrikaner bull into the pub at the Ansonia Hotel during Show Week, for a celebratory few whiskies which he lapped out of a beer mug (the bull, that is).
Was there trouble? Not a bit of it. Next day The Mercury had a front page picture of the two of them in Harold’s Bar. Huge framed blow-ups of the incident hung there for years.
Tailpiece
AT BREAKFAST he asks his wife: “What would you do I if won the lottery?”
“I’d take half and then leave you.” “Great. I won R12 yesterday. Here’s R6. Stay in touch.”
Last word
BOOKS have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.