1. MCAST Open Weekend – Visits and Tours to Industry
(Articles/Society)

... are appropriate and relevant to a dynamic and forward-looking economy.   The Open Weekend aims to provide prospective students and their parents with a useful picture of the various learning opportunities ...

2. Farsons unveils plans about New Brewhouse Project costing €14 million - to be completed by 2013
(Articles/Business)

... The first two projects commenced in 2005.   Details were given during a press conference held at the Farsons Brewery in Mriehel, in the presence of the Minister of Finance, the Economy and Investment ...

3. Global Finance names HSBC Malta Best Trade Finance Bank in Malta for 2010
(Articles/Business)

... transactions.”   HSBC Bank Malta CEO Alan Richards said: “We have worked hard to support our customers and the local economy during the challenging economic crises of the last 18 months, and we are delighted ...

4. The Next Crisis, Sovereign Debt
(Articles/Videos)

After every financial crisis there’s a sovereign debt crisis, Marc Faber says. Countries that borrowed too much during the boom times start struggling to pay their competitors back, and eventually some ...

5. Unemployment up by 7.8% since January
(Articles/Ahbarijiet)

In November 2009, the number of registered unemployed persons amounted to 7,588. This included 6,801 persons in Malta and 787 in Gozo. Accordingly, in the twelve months to November 2009, the persons ...

6. In Search of the Common Good
(Articles/Opinion)

... crisis and economic hardship – everybody knows that. Our neighbour Greece is on the brink of bankruptcy not because it’s a poor country but because its economy has been badly handled. Successive governments ...

7. Korea’s first A380 takes flight
(Articles/Travel)

... 10 tonnes of cargo. The new service demonstrates Emirates’ investment in the Korean economy, perfectly timed to support ‘Visit Korea Year’ in 2010. Seoul is Emirates sixth A380 destination, and comes ...

8. Finanzi fis-sod
(Articles/Ahbarijiet)

  GDP contracts by 2.1%  Provisional estimates indicate that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) edged up by 0.3 per cent in the third quarter of 2009, compared to the corresponding period last year. In ...

9. Don't let ‘Climategate' melt down your portfolio
(Articles/Business)

I've said before that you are more vulnerable to skillful rhetoric than you think. Well, the past week proved it. You've probably read about “Climategate” – how thousands of hacked e-mails from climate ...

10. Climategate reveals 'the most influential tree in the world'
(Articles/Ambjent - Environment)

... to 80 per cent, utterly transforming the world economy. Little of this extraordinary story been reported by the BBC or most of our mass-media, so possessed by groupthink that they are unable to see the ...

11. Interview with Malta's Permanent Representative in Brussels
(Articles/Opinion)

... growth in an increasngly globalised world economy, while allowing us to realise our full potential as an independent state.   What the Lisbon Treaty does is modernise EU rules which were designed for a ...

12. Australia: Conservative politicians shoot down carbon taxes in Senate
(Articles/World)

OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott has dramatically thrown out the Liberal Party's policy on climate change.   He has ruled out support for an emissions trading scheme (ETS) or a pollution ...

13. Why should I pay?
(Articles/Opinion)

... as a single mother? Why should I pay for someone who registers as unemployed and earns more than I do in the black economy? Why should I pay for workers who systematically add their sick leave allowance ...

14. Hyperinflation wll ruin you
(Articles/Videos)

Healthy economies are measured by production and not consumption, by savings not spending. This must watch documentary is about the dollar bubble but given we are going down the same route it should ...

15. The Economics of Recycling
(Articles/Ambjent - Environment)

Presented by Floy Lilley at the "Economics for High School Students" seminar. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama; 20 November 2009. PndeWksuTjg   

16. Revisiting and Expanding the Laffer Curve
(Articles/Business)

The Laffer curve is about how much imposition or other types of trouble, people are willing to tolerate from their fellows. Arthur Laffer, a professor at the University of Southern California, is supposed ...

17. Did Islam Destroy the Classical Civilization?
(Articles/Culture)

... fragmented the kingdoms of Western Europe, took shape. In the years which followed, the Church became the sole vehicle of learning and administration, and a barter economy largely replaced the monetary ...

18. Data horribilia: the HARRY_READ_ME.txt file
(Articles/Ambjent - Environment)

... v3.0! You'll laugh! You'll cry! You won't wonder why CRU never wanted to release the data! You will wonder why we are even contemplating restructuring the world economy and wasting trillions of dollars ...

19. The significance of the CRU emails
(Articles/Ambjent - Environment)

... and uncorrupt. And these emails most certainly explode the proposition that we should reorder the world economy because of an impending climate disaster. Every single member of The Club needs to be removed ...

20. Do Not Believe Them
(Articles/Opinion)

... (as in Communist Red). The Communist Van Jones, briefly appointed as Green Jobs Adviser to President Obama, made no secret of why he liked the job. He said that the green economy would start off as ‘a ...