News and notes from around the interweb:
- In Berlin you can rent the smallest house in the world for one euro a night (HT: Marginal Revolution)
- Saudia just did a $7.7 billion deal for 50 Airbus aircraft using entirely Sharia-compliant financing. Since the Koran bans interest, modern finance techniques must go through machinations to make interest appear as a return to risk. Large capital purchases like aircraft make this process easier. Duke economics professor Timur Kuran finds the more relaxed a country’s approach to such arrangements the stronger its economic performance.
- The moment a Queen’s Guard Soldier Lost it and Drew His Gun at an Annoying Tourist
- For more than twenty years, he flew to a different European city — every Wednesday. He never missed a week. And he never left the airport. (HT: Michael T.)
- Cronyism isn’t just for United, Delta, and American to try to shut out the big Middle East airlines from the US market (and Norwegian, too). Cathay Pacific and Hong Kong Airlines opposed Qantas starting up Jetstar Hong Kong and this week the local regulator denied the new discount airline’s application for service.
Pretty sure there’s a major typo in the title…
Typo in title “Korean” must be Koran
Korean Bans Interest? Was that North or South Korean?
I bet that the guard didn’t lose it but was acting within protocol based on the battery perpetrated by the tourist, nothing happened until the tourist laid a hand on them.
Idiot Chinese tourists…
Yeah, the Chinese tourists are really obnoxious. They have money but no social graces or education. Reminds me of the Americans in the 50’s and 60’s.
Hire one of those Brits, to show Jennicet Gutiérrez the door at the White House. Obama shouldn’t be wasting his precious time going off on this person.
@gene, @blacksheep: How do you know he’s Chinese? And from China? Just because he looks Asian? That’s your bigoted anti-Chinese prejudice talking, which makes YOU two obnoxious idiots!
And if it was one of your own people doing it, you would be the last to criticize your people. No, in that case it’s the person who’s to blame, not his nationality. That makes you two hypocritical cowards.
Soldier/guard was on guard and on point !!