Timely advice from Arnold Schwarzenegger – and his South African mentor.

Like his hero, Schwarzenegger offers a perfect inversion to those empty vessels given so much airplay in South Africa of late. He concludes the Ferriss book’s foreword with: “The worst thing you can ever do is think that you know enough. Never stop learning. Ever.” Quite.

Austria to launch legal challenge against UK’s proposed nuclear plant

The global nuclear power industry’s proposed comeback won’t be easy. In the wake of South Africa’s suggested deal with Russia on eight nuclear power plants comes a challenge by Austria to fellow EU member Britain which is planning its first nuclear power plant in a generation. The numbers are also instructive. The UK’s Hinkley Point … Read more

Euro under water as ECB opens liquidity spout

Even if you don’t need cash, it must be wonderful to be so popular that the markets are prepared to pay you to lend you cash. The move by the ECB to implement QE has sent the Euro into a tailspin and yields on short term bonds into negative territory. On the other side of … Read more

Mountain rescuers deliver high-altitude baby

Vienne, Autriche | AFP | A team of 15 mountain rescuers accompanied by a gynaecologist had to climb some 2,500 metres (8,200 feet) above sea level to help deliver a baby, police said Wednesday. The mother, 30, went into labour in a mountain hut at around 7:00 am on Tuesday but could not be brought … Read more

European Foreign Ministers discuss Ukraine as death tolls rises

European foreign ministers met in Vienna Tuesday for a diplomatic effort to defuse the Ukrainian crisis, one day after up to 30 people were feared to have been killed in fighting in the country’s east. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the annual meeting of the Council of Europe’s foreign ministers should send a message … Read more

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Collectivism is as dead as the dodo

Sometimes, the debate between those who favour a free market system, and those who favour state-led development gets oversimplified. The debate is caricatured as a binary choice: Wild West, unregulated free markets on one side, and intrusive, Soviet-style government control on the other. But as this contribution from Alex Zarr argues, this is a false … Read more