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About me

I live in the U.K. but have worked and travelled all over the world. I am a semi-professional wildlife and travel photographer (i.e. I sold a couple of photos once), semi-retired consultant physicist (i.e. unemployed bofin) with a keen interest in finance (i.e. get rich quick..ly) and classic cars

Briefly me

My passion is ...

Wildlife photography

I know too much about ...

travel, photography, finance

My childhood ambition ...

To become a physicist

My favorite memory ...

Borneo rain forest

My first job ...

Silicon chip designer

Featured article by Andrew Porter

Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Public anger against bankers in the financial crisis: 4 of 6

In Britain, where the financial services industry now makes up a large part of the total economy, due to the neglect of our traditional fortes of manufacturing, engineering innovation and science, there is an intense anger against bankers. This feeling, however, is common in many other parts of the world where austerity measures have also been imposed to try to get out of the situation at least partially caused by the banks: public job cuts, additional taxes and welfare reduction are hurting everyone else in society. The banks, however, are booming. At least that is how it would feel if yo...
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