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Younghusband
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Younghusband

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June 8th, 2005

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I ♥ The Economist

It’s true, I do! I just got my first issue on my new subscription (Happy Birthday to me!) and there was a note saying I get 25% of stuff in The Economist Shop. I was looking around, and I so want this t-shirt:

Economist shirt

Hi, my name is Younghusband, and I am an Economist addict. *[sob]*

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Curzon
June 8, 2005
6:57 am
Happy Birthday!
Chirol
June 8, 2005
9:11 am
Congrats! Have a good one!
Alfred Russel Wallace
June 8, 2005
1:54 pm
25% of stuff or 25% off stuff, he asked in a school-masterly way...... better get a bigger apartment.....
Younghusband
June 8, 2005
4:09 pm
Oops... guess I was so excited I mis-grammarized that sentence.
Curzon
June 8, 2005
4:17 pm
That would have been even funnier in Yoda grammar.
Nitin
June 9, 2005
9:16 am
Younghusband,

I'm glad there is at least one other person who calls himself an Economist addict.
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August 5, 2005
5:01 pm
[...] Earth to the editors: your magazine isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Please, for the love of God—if you want to read a decent weekly, get a subscription to The Economist already and be done with it. No other weekly provides such good content on such a regular and reliable basis. Leave a Reply [...]
Gabriel Mihalache
August 5, 2005
5:37 pm
The E. is a bit too left-leaning at times for my taste... but in a way so are the vast majority of economists. The history/politics stuff in there is good, and so are the technology-made-easy coverages.
Younghusband
August 6, 2005
12:46 am
Gabe, are you serious? The E is one of the pillars of classical liberal journalism. In other words, an anti-dirty-hippie publication with heavy doses of political realism and economic freedom. If you think the Economist is left, you must be more hardcore than "Milton Friedman":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman!