By Rassam Fakour-Zaker Know Your Money Editor There have been some amazing, life-affirming occurrences over the past ten years. But you don’t want to hear about those, do you? Thought not. Here’s the most crushing letdowns of the decade… 10. The Y2K Bug: Crappest techno-crisis ever (1st January 2000) The disappointments started early this decade. [...]
Collecting. It’s a bizarre habit, isn’t it? Be it stamps, coins, bottle tops, beer or anything, there is some innate compulsion to amass a set of items that only truly have value to the collectors or to others that share their passion (or are as willing to use their virgin credit card or MBNA credit [...]
By Rassam Fakour-Zaker Know Your Money Editor Just because world is on the verge of a horribly messy economic apocalypse doesn’t mean we can’t have fun, right? Right. However, we all know that expenditure on leisure is one of the first casualties of a recession; therefore, financially prudent entertainment is the best option. That’s where [...]
No adverts, trailers, or fancy introductions for this article – that’s how things end up going over budget (and word count). I’ll just note that all figures are either officially reported costs or estimates collated from various web sources. Movies are listed in order of adjusted budget (all adjusted to 2008 costs using this US [...]
An economic tsunami is reverberating around the world. The foundations of financial institutions are shaking. Governments, in an unprecedented move, are pouring billions of tax payers’ dollars into financial markets, guaranteeing customers’ savings and taking full or part control of major banks in an attempt to re-build confidence in lending and stabilise the economy. In [...]
10. $78,100,000. Pierre-August Renoir – Le Moulin de la Galette. At the time of its sale in 1990, it was the second most expensive painting ever sold. This masterpiece even went to the same person that bought number one at the time, Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co. chairman Ryoei Saito. Again, he wanted this one cremated [...]
With the world in the grip of an international food crisis, supermarket prices increasing weekly and the cost of a Pot Noodle at an all-time high it seemed like a good time to take a somewhat tasteless (pun intended) look at the world’s most expensive foods. While people across the globe struggle to feed their [...]
