Airbus has just been fined NZ $5 billion for bribing purchasers, and rightly so. That’s serious money appropriate for a serious crime. In particular it levered a huge advantage to Airbus over their currently troubled principal rival Boeing. If Boeing had been the offender, then they’d not only have copped a similar fine but under American law, their officials would have done a decent term of imprisonment.

The latest, always a sign of stupidity in its users, is the “women of colour” absurdity. We certainly never hear “men of colour”, its usage being the domain of lightweight fad – following females. Everyone is “of colour”. If they weren’t they’d be invisible. Even those without skin pigment, specifically albinos are “of colour”, in their case snow white.

The surge in Tesla’s share-price brought short-sellers losses to an estimated U.S $6 billion plus. More to the point it made Tesla the second most valuable car manufacturer in the world despite its unit sales, at this juncture, being relatively minuscule compared with its rivals.

Mike Moore is gone, having lived a wonderfully full life. So much so indeed, his last five years of relentless health deterioration were particularly painful for both him and his friends.

History says scientists will find an answer to coronavirus, as has occurred with a number of similar scares since Aids in the 1980s.  But what if that doesn’t happen, after all there’s no guarantee? The short answer is a serious global recession and let’s face it, a solid recession has a tendency for human reasons to quickly become a depression. Furthermore, this recession will not be solvable as in 2008, through flooding the world with money. Here’s why.