More depressing Brexit fall-out news, as household and manufacturing confidence is the lowest it has been since 1990. The study was carried out by GfK, a market research company, and the index indicated the sharpest month on month drop for almost thirty years. Fears about the economic future of the...
Many were dubious by the Ice Bucket Challenge that swept the digital universe in 2014, indeed we at the London Economic initially were not too impressed. We whole-heartedly apologise now, as it has actually achieved something. Millions of people, including high profile celebrities, filmed themselves having a bucket of ice...
An astonishing video has been released that features an orangutan who can talk! Rocky has somehow managed to learn to talk like a human being. The eight-year-old primate has copied words and reproduced them to scientists in a "conversational context". Rocky mimicked the tone and pitch of human vowel sounds....
After the disgusting events of yesterday at a Church in Normandy, when a Priest was murdered in cold blood, the terrorists’ attentions appear to be turning to London. There have been images threatening attacks on the UK capital circulating via Telegram, a messaging app used by Islamic terrorists. The warning...
More depressing UK economic news has been released, this time in relation to wage growth. Britain has seen a larger decline in real wages since the 2007 credit crunch than any other developed country apart from Greece. It is feared that Brexit may have an even more negative impact on...
The Secret Garden Party, a music festival in Cambridgeshire, was the first in the UK to use illegal drug testing, last weekend. It is thought around two hundred people used the service, so they could ensure that their illegal drugs did not contain any additional harmful substances, reports the Guardian....
A teacher has decided to ditch her job as a £2k a month teacher to make a living playing Pokemon Go. It may seem far-fetched to many but it seems that it is possible to make substantial sums of money from the game. Sophia Pedraza, 26, plans to cash in...
A PR firm has taken a harsh stance against a charity who wanted to move into the same building as them. According to City A.M. Lee Publicity, a fashion and home PR business would not accept a charity that helps female ex-offenders to get into work, to locate themselves at...
The multi-million pound pay packages handed out to CEO’s don’t actually improve the companies they work for, in fact it makes them worse. A newly published study by corporate-governance research firm MSCI has highlighted this issue. They ask the simple question: “Has CEO pay reflected long-term stock performance? In a...