to all the quick replies below, the article actually goes a bit in the possible causation and how higher interest rates might relate to higher financial stress in society and how that relates to crime rates.
Why would they want to? Part of the hypothesis is that interest rates drive increased unemployment which drives crime. Overall their thesis is that interest rates are a leading indicator of economic stresses that highly impact crime rates.
Hypothetically, you could wrap this storage solution in a service that automatically creates new underlying links as old ones exhaust their quota or expire.
are you familiar with blendle.com ? It's how I tend to consume news these days. I don't get why most news sites don't allow me to pay per article. Very happy blendle exists, just wish more outlets would partner with them.
Well we can already build them on the moon or mars, but there's not much use to do that at this point. The physics of a space elevator our completely understood, it's "just" finding a strong enough material to build the tether. A star trek transporter is still far out of reach.
The physics of rockets is completely understood, too, and several applications have already been debugged. It's "just" a matter of finding a better propellent.
The "eurocrats" are elected, there are elections for the eu parlement every 5 years. The 28 (soon 27) members of the european comission are proposed by the member states (eg their elected leaders) and approved by the european parlement. And finally the council of europe is made up of elected national ministers (per domain).
With regard to the rules: you would still have to comply to most of these rules to be part of the single market (which most leave proponents want to be). Studies from WTO and IMF have shown that not going that route (eg trading under WTO rules) would impact UK severely (up to 9% of the GPD). See for example https://www.imf.org/external/np/ms/2016/051316.htm
