Daily Archives: August 25, 2006

Cheney thinks US economy’s going down

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Well, well. Interesting report…

According to Kiplinger’s, the Cheneys, who may be worth close to $100 million, have invested the vast majority of their wealth overseas, in markets that do not fluctuate based on the U.S. dollar: Vice President Cheney’s financial advisers are apparently betting on a rise in inflation and interest rates and on a decline in the value of the dollar against foreign currencies. That’s the conclusion we draw after scouring the financial disclosure form released by Cheney this week.

The Cheneys’ money is not in a blind trust but, according to his advisers: “the vice president pays no attention to his investments.”…

Oh yeah?

Slivers of time

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Now here’s a really good idea.

Slivers-of-Time is a new way of working. You list the hours you would like to work and local employers buy them.

New web sites are making this way of working easy to organise and less likely to go wrong. They remove all the overheads of booking top-up workers at short notice, for short periods. The web technology to achieve this is only now viable.

The Slivers-of-Time programme is funded jointly by the UK government and private companies. It’s low profile at the moment but working with far sighted government agencies, employers and recruitment agencies to launch a new way of working for the UK.

The interesting thing is that it’s funded by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. So that’s one thing John Prescott is good for, then.