Comments for Five Minute Economist's Blog http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on My lip balm is eating my lips! by Fiona @ Everyday Spiritual Wisdom http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/my-lip-balm-is-eating-my-lips/#comment-491 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:59:48 +0000 http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/?p=1013#comment-491 Whilst it doesn’t surprise me that they’re making it addictive it does surprise me that I didn’t realise… I’ve used so much Carmex for the past 15 years it’s unbelievable. I made a choice this week to stop using it, because I wondered if part of the problem with my lips is linked with Carmex. It could be any of the ingredients that my body isn’t liking.

It’s made me look at skin care in a whole new light… I wouldn’t be surprised if I end up using 100% natural products or just water from now on.

]]> Comment on Does online shopping make you happy? by Peter http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/does-online-shopping-make-you-happy/#comment-488 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:15:04 +0000 http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/?p=775#comment-488 This is true. A click won’t make you happy but guess what a good shopping site hands down for online visitors to visit regularly is easier to get to and navigate than a real store, right :-) ?

]]> Comment on Why Ronaldo pays too much for his rubber bands by Paying for psychic pigs | Five Minute Economist's Blog http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/why-ronaldo-pays-too-much-for-his-rubber-bands/#comment-475 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:06:46 +0000 http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/?p=64#comment-475 [...] because this popular sport of kicking balls across fields throws up case-study after case-study: Ronaldo’s magic wrist-bands, over-optimism fuelled an inability to learn from past performance (in the case of England fans), [...]

]]> Comment on Don’t believe this blog – economists lie! by Krugman on the Failure of Economics in a Crisis « Trenz Pruca's Journal http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/dont-believe-this-blog-economists-lie/#comment-470 Fri, 25 May 2012 10:12:15 +0000 http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/?p=1023#comment-470 [...] Don’t believe this blog – economists lie! (fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com) [...]

]]> Comment on It’s just not fair! Why we don’t know what taxes we want by Budget 2012: It’s the way you communicate it | Five Minute Economist's Blog http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/it%e2%80%99s-just-not-fair-why-we-don%e2%80%99t-know-what-taxes-we-want/#comment-453 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:53:16 +0000 http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-453 [...] fact, people’s views on how much tax they should pay and how the taxes they pay should be used to he…. If you ask people how much tax different people should pay, they tend to say that people should [...]

]]> Comment on My lip balm is eating my lips! by tribalstylemarketing http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/my-lip-balm-is-eating-my-lips/#comment-416 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:00:57 +0000 http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/?p=1013#comment-416 So true, I’m tired of all the chemicals in my food, soaps, cleaning agents. I recently read that my favorite lip balm Blistex, which works really well, better than others for me, has titanium dioxide. A lovely chemical that is currently listed as one of the most deadly & toxic. Looks like I will just use a natural one or even olive oil!

]]> Comment on You’d better smile by Benevolent dictators versus leaders with personality | Five Minute Economist's Blog http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/youd-better-smile/#comment-415 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:26:40 +0000 http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/?p=833#comment-415 [...] politics has become more personality-based, with politicians expected to show their human side: smiley politicians have an advantage over more dour rivals. The authors of this paper suggest that being elected on the basis of personality could induce a [...]

]]> Comment on Executive pay: we need to think beyond £s by fiveminuteeconomist http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/executive-pay-we-need-to-think-beyond-s/#comment-401 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:09:25 +0000 http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/?p=975#comment-401 Hi Dazzle Rebel,
Thanks for your comment – you have an interesting point about how a sense of unfairness can reduce motivation at levels below executive. At the very least, it must compromise the sense of company loyalty and team spirit that so many corporate organisations seem to want to – or at least say they want to – encourage.

]]> Comment on Executive pay: we need to think beyond £s by Dazzle Rebel http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/executive-pay-we-need-to-think-beyond-s/#comment-400 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:58:28 +0000 http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/?p=975#comment-400 I think the main problem people have is the huge gap between the super rich and everyone else. It’s when multimillion pound company executives get huge bonuses that dwarf the annual pay of most folk while at the same time making job cuts, freezing or reducing their workers pay and still running the company further into the red. If the void between the elite and everyone else was reduced and as mentioned reward wasn’t just about the £££’s we’ll be onto a winner when providing incentive for the work force.

]]> Comment on Executive pay: we need to think beyond £s by piratesharkz http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/executive-pay-we-need-to-think-beyond-s/#comment-399 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:16:50 +0000 http://fiveminuteeconomist.wordpress.com/?p=975#comment-399 Reblogged this on truebay.

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