Now is not the time for central banks to abandon their inflation targets

Reuters/Lucas Jackson More and more investors are calling for central banks to remove their inflation targets. However, this would be a mistake, according to Jeremy Lawson, chief economist at Aberdeen Standard Investments. Doing so would make it harder for central banks to navigate downturns.   There are growing calls for central banks to reduce their emphasis […]

Priest urges church to abandon Christmas, ‘hijacked’ by Santa

Published time: 19 Nov, 2017 00:11 A Catholic priest has urged the church to abandon the word “Christmas” because it has been “hijacked by Santa and reindeer.” Dublin-based priest Father Desmond O’Donnell said believers should now use the word “Nativity” instead of “Christmas,” because the latter has lost all its meaning to commercialization. “We’ve lost […]

Disney is just the first of many to abandon Netflix

TripAdvisor/Adventure_Traveler85 Last month, Disney announced its intention to take its films off Netflix in 2019 and start its own streaming service. I wrote that Disney could be just the first of many media companies with differentiated content to pull their deals with Netflix and offer their own streaming packages. Indeed, we’re already seeing it happen. 21st Century Fox’s FX now offers commercial-free streaming […]

New Star Trek series will abandon Gene Roddenberry’s cardinal rule

Enlarge / Sonequa Martin-Green plays protagonist Michael Burnham, first officer of the U.S.S. Shenzhou, on new CBS All Access series Star Trek: Discovery. (credit: CBS) Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry had a lot of strict rules for writers on his shows. Some, like the requirement that both female and male officers be called “sir,” were […]

‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Trailer: Time To Abandon Your Humanity

The war between man and ape is in full swing, and it doesn’t look pretty. Director Matt Reeves‘ War for the Planet of the Apes looks like the biggest, perhaps most intense addition to the series yet, but it also looks to continue the series’ tradition of thoughtful science-fiction. Talk of war and abandoning humanity to save humanity […]