Eye_of_Mordor

Perhaps choosing the cheapest legal solution is a better middle road?

If you eliminate the "average" segment of your staff, then you fire good staff next time around.

Alternatively: if you eliminate the "average" segment of your staff, then you fire their "average" replacements next time around?

You're referring to capitalism, the game where rich parents raise their entrepeneurial offspring.

Scrabble is a play of words or meaning? Perhaps you're looking for the triple word scrore in today's crossword puzzle as well?

Steve Jobs is dead because he wouldn't listen to other people.

Irony being that some of these "native brits" would be descended from Indian/Pakistani immigrants.

Huge drop in oil prices has driven inflation lower (oil had been high for a long time). Nothing to see here.

tl;dr increasing urban density => decreasing car use

Truth is, more cars are being sold than ever before, but even this is levelling out.

Global bicycle production per capita, on the other hand, has halved since the 1970's

Lenin is basically a love doll.

"Now, I am become love doll, the destroyer of men's opression" - Vladimir Lenin, 2015

... so your boot isn't really 'locked' at all?

Alternatively, you stop watching movies and do something else?

Isn't Spain subject to the European Convention on Human Rights?

'secret' police

If these were 2 people, then who is the 'problem':

* US with heavy debts?

* Germany with savings?

Germany is in a position to fix its infrastructure, but then again, this can wait until there's a need for job creation.

Also, outstanding tax 'reforms' are more a symptom of weak political influence by corporations, which is a good thing.

Germany isn't the US, and for this reason, it is rich.

Edit: punctuation