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ROOT OF ALL EVIL Did God have a mummy and daddy? Or did s/he he just create her/himself? (4 answers) What price would petrol have to rise to before we started seeing horse drawn taxis undercutting the petrol ones? (one answer) To a large extent, the current economic crisis appears to be due to the borrowing and lending of money for the purposes of speculation. Would a world economy without any form of credit be a completely bad thing? (2 answers) Where does the Government actually keep the money that it receives and pay money from that it spends? Should we be worried in case it's another dodgy bank? (2 answers) Islam eschews usury, so if I were to fund my business start-up with a loan from an Islamic bank, how would this differ from a loan from an ordinary bank? (2 answers) A colleague of mine keenly collects used stamps to give to charity - but what value do they have? What does the charity do with them? (2 answers) Out of all the lottery jackpot winners, who, if anyone, has achieved the most with their winnings through investment and how much did their winnings grow? (no answers) If mortgages were banned, what would happen to house prices? (7 answers) In the US, the largest coin in (general) circulation remains the quarter (about 12p!). Is there any demand amongst Americans for more 'sensible' coins like a dollar, 2 dollar, 5 dollar etc to be minted and put in general circulation, and, if not (as I suspect) why not? (7 answers) What's to stop you or I borrowing a large sum of money in Japan, where interest rates are currently 0.5 per cent, bringing it to the UK and investing it here at, say, 6 per cent, then living happily on the difference? (7 answers) English bank notes all display the Queen's head. Why is it that Scottish bank notes do not? (3 answers) When was the first official exchange rate between the £ and the US dollar? Does anyone know what it was? (5 answers) Does anyone know who has been the beneficiary of royalties on the sale of Hitler's books since his death? (7 answers) In 1958, Gerard Hoffnung addressed the Oxford Union and recounted the famous ?Bricklayer's Story" ("Half way up I met the barrel coming down...etc."). In 2006, how much compensation could a competent legal firm be expected to obtain for the bricklayer, and on what grounds? (4 answers) If Third World countries are the poorest on earth, then First World must be the richest. Is there such a thing as Second World countries? Are there any official ways of separating the groups? (20 answers) What would happen if we aimed for 0% growth, 0% shrinkage. Can we still maintain or improve the average standard of living? (3 answers) If every British citizen received, at exactly the same time, a one-off payment of a million pounds, what would be the effect of this on the economy? (10 answers) Do balance of trade figures actually matter? Britain seems to have run a deficit consistantly for years now but it doesn't seem to have hurt our economy. Should we really be concerned that our imports are much greater than our exports? (4 answers) What is the origin of the guinea (1 pound & 1 shilling) Was the shilling to pay the professional's lackies? (6 answers) When will the oil run out and what are we going to do when it does? (15 answers)  |
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