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There’s been an awful lot of coverage of Apple’s most recent financial results. The results were (kind of) incredible, but even so, the level of coverage seems slightly overblown. MG Siegler, no stranger to the Apple love letter, manages 1,085 words on why Apple’s results were so insanely awesome. Yes, that’s right. Over. One. Thousand. [...]

And so it goes on: more jokes based on the fall-out from the financial crisis. This one didn’t exactly make me laugh, but it did raise a smile. I particularly like the (very insightful) small-print. You probably thought it was smart to buy a foreign import of superior quality, with better mileage and resale value. [...]

I know I shouldn’t laugh really, but it’s hard not to: charity record Feed The World re-imagined for the credit crunch as Bleed The World – give money for those who will only be able to afford one Ferrari this year. I have to say that if nothing else the global financial armageddon has been [...]

Popbitch has an amusing little thing called cow economics. It uses the idea of owning cows to describe various different types of economic systems. A couple of my favourites include: AN ITALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows, but you don’t know where they are. You decide to have lunch AN AMERICAN CORPORATION You have two [...]

Some bright spark has done a bit of photo-shopping to supposedly show next week’s Economist cover. It made me laugh (but then I’ve always been easily amused). I actually read The Economist whenever I travel and, on my way back from Dublin, read this week’s issue – apparently it’s not all the banker’s fault, and [...]

  Once again I’m showing how fashionably out of touch I am by posting something months after everyone else. Still, what the hell – we’ll all be living in cardboard boxes and trying to learn the words to ‘Brother Can You Spare A Dime‘ in a couple of months, and then who found The Subprime [...]

Anyone wishing that they had paid more attention in A Level Economics? Me too.