David Thewlis, who plays Remus Lupin, has a new movie project actually coming out today titled “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”, set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden fri...

Bob Murphy, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism , posts on former Australian PM Paul Keating blaming Obama’s Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner for Directly Messing Up Indonesia, and Indirectly for Contributing to the US Housing Boom. Snappy title, Bob.  Lucky his analysis of...

ZillionTV gets support from major movie studios ZillionTV has announced that they have received support from five of the major Hollywood studios. The company offers a personalized TV service. They... ....

To borrow from Morrissey — stop me oh-ho-ho stop me, stop me if you think that you’ve heard this one before. A new startup wants to deliver premium content to your big screen TV over the Internet! ZillionTV formally took the wraps off its new TV set-top box/premium content delivery servi...

Jane Vandenburgh’s memoir is a survival story, a tale of how she overcame a strange and sad childhood to become a strange, complicated and slightly less sad adult....

Kim Masters lays out what's at stake for Rupert Murdoch's empire, asking: (Isn’t it odd that while Sumner Redstone can’t push his children out of his company fast enough, Murdoch seems to have trouble drawing his children in?) I was amazed that Peter Chernin got a studio production deal with two...

Although it was only built last year, Frank Gehry’s fractured ‘Serpentine Gallery’ posted here at NOT PC the other day is part of the mainstream of twentieth-century western art – architecture just took a few more decades to really catch up. “Twentieth-century art,� explains Stephen Hick...

Here’s the result of a decade of economic stimulus, as described by Franklin Roosevelt’s Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. to the House Ways and Means Committee in May 1939: We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.  And I ...

Since the Herald began a series over the weekend looking at the global depression, I figured I’d start posting a few pointed historical facts and figures here – including a few parallels. According to Austrian economists like Peter Schiff, Mark Thornton and Thorstein Polleit – who all draw the...

NZ's Foundation for Economic Growth posts this as their Quotation for the Month: At a lunch at the Bank of England, just ten days before his death in 1946, John Maynard Keynes remarked: "I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to ej...