Enoch enthuses about the (upmarket) shopping mall experience in Hong Kong, but I feel this is the typical phenomenon of Asia adopting Western consumer tastes just as they are about to decline.
The Economist has documented how these shopping behemoths are dying, and it is not too difficult to see why. The process is being accelerated [...]
… or SydLink, as its been branded, is — let’s face it — bad. Sydney desperately needed new public transport investment and this was the least costly solution with the biggest political impact.
Whatever heavy transport solution was proposed needed to cross Sydney Harbour, as the existing path across the Bridge is at maximum capacity. Instead [...]
The submissions for the Australia 2020 summit (some 8000 of them) were publicly released today. Predictably, about half are just gibberish, and a fair chunk are filled with unrealistic wish-lists. I am heartened to see that several University of Sydney academics have made sensible contributions to the talkathon (one is actually attending the summit this [...]
The New York Times (NYT) has decided to finally remove its ridiculous pay-wall service (TimesSelect), meaning all content is now freely available to anyone with internet access. On top of that they are going to progressively make available the entire NYT archives stretching back to 1851. As a university student, apparently I’ve had free access [...]
Marginal Revolution takes a look at a “politically incorrect” paper:
Average income of whites and other races: $53,292.
Average income of blacks: $34,485.
Expenditures on footwear by whites and other races: $274
Expenditures on footwear by blacks: $440.
