A ticking time bomb in China has global markets looking really shaky right now

Reuters/CHINA STRINGER NETWORK Global markets are jittery in recent days as fears about growth in China take hold. “The larger the stimulus used by China to offset the trade war impact, the bigger will its deficit likely be,” Tao Wang, UBS’s chief China economist, said in a report on Tuesday Markets are also worried about the ongoing Italian debt […]

Many results in microeconomics are shaky

MICROECONOMISTS are wrong about specific things, Yoram Bauman, an economist and comedian, likes to say, whereas macroeconomists are wrong in general. Macroeconomists have borne the brunt of public criticism over the past decade, a period marked by financial crisis, soaring unemployment and bitter arguments between the profession’s brightest stars. Yet the vast majority of practising […]

Audi’s New A8 Will Be the Last with a W-12; V-10’s Future Looks Shaky, Too

– While nothing succeeds like excess, the trend for downsizing is reaching higher and higher into the auto industry. Now Audi has confirmed that the newly introduced 2019 A8 sedan will be the last model the company produces to use a 12-cylinder engine. – “We will not have the 12-cylinder forever,” Peter Mertens, Audi’s R&D […]

Leytonstone tube attack hero ‘sweaty and shaky’ as he relives trauma on live TV

DAVID PETHERS – the man hailed for stopping the terrorist attack in Leytonstone tube station last December – appeared on GMB this morning to recount the experience; becoming noticeably uncomfortable as he was re-shown the footage from the day live on air. Daily Express :: TV & Radio Feed