Omar Borkan Al Gala, a smouldering poet, actor, and photographer from Dubai, is rumoured to be one third of the chiselled trio that was deported by Saudi authorities who feared that they would prove irresistible to the Kingdom's women.
The three men from the United Arab Emirates are said to have been removed from the Jenadrivah Heritage & Culture Festival in Riyadh because they were "too handsome".
Women, and some men, across the world have been longing for a glimpse of the illegally attractive men and the internet's probing spotlight has fallen on Al Gala.
The young man, who appears to be wearing eye-liner in many of his Facebook glamour shots, posted a link to an article about the deportation with the comment: "This is what written in newspapers in over the world :)"
Although far from definitive proof, the post set off a stampede of speculation, which Al Gala has done nothing to discourage.
[CNBC] The growing underground economy may be helping to prevent the real economy from sinking further, according to analysts.
The shadow economy is a system composed of those who can't find a full-time or regular job. Workers turn to anything that pays them under the table, with no income reported and no taxes paid -- especially with an uneven job picture.
"I think the underground economy is quite big in the U.S.," said Alexandre Padilla, associate professor of economics at Metropolitan State University of Denver. "Whether it's using undocumented workers or those here legally, it's pretty large."
"You normally see underground economies in places like Brazil or in southern Europe," said Laura Gonzalez, professor of personal finance at Fordham University. "But with the job situation and the uncertainty in the economy, it's not all that surprising to have it growing here in the United States."
Estimates are that underground activity last year totaled as much as $2 trillion, according to a study by Edgar Feige, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
That's double the amount in 2009, according to a study by Friedrich Schneider, a professor at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. The study said the shadow economy amounts to nearly 8 percent of U.S. gross domestic product.
Much of that money goes into cash registers, said Gonzalez, as personal consumption has risen since the recession.
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> with no income reported and no taxes paid
Who'd have guessed that freed from comparative advantage damaging taxes on incomes people would start to generate wealth?!
I'm shocked. Shouldn't they just photocopy some money or something? I thought that's the way to create wealth.
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..well at the rate Bernanke is inflating the currency, it won't be long that it'll be cheaper for the Treasury to sell watermarked paper at Staples/Office Max for you to indeed print your own money at home.
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-- There is no recovery.
-- There's always been an underground economy. I once got a 30% discount on a motel room simply for paying cash up front.
-- at the rate Bernanke is inflating the currency This Great Depression II we are in involves massive deflation. Bernanke is only keeping it from being even worse. Even before the events of 2007, he had gone on the record saying he would do that even before 2007.
--- Don't conflate higher prices with inflation.
--- Massive government spending and debt-buying is also making things look better than they are. If the gov't simply cut back its spending to the level of 2007, people would be hurting like they did in the early 1930's.
[BETA.DAWN] Relatives of 'missing' persons staged a protest during Thursday's hearing of the missing persons case at the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. High Court and tried to storm into the courtroom of PHC Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan.
A two-member bench of the PHC, comprising Justice Dost and Justice Roohul Amin Khan, resumed the hearing of the case pertaining to 335 missing persons.
During the hearing, deputy attorney general Muzzammil Khan presented a list of missing persons in the court according to which 14 persons had been shifted to various internal cells after cases against them were quashed.
Moreover, 10 of the missing persons had returned to their respective homes.
Khyber tribal region's political agent Mazhar Zeb informed the court that four of the missing person were killed during an operation conducted in Jamrud tehsil.
Justice Dost ordered for compensation to be paid to the heirs of the four persons killed during the Jamrud operation.
Relatives of the missing staged a vigorous protest outside the court's premises and at one point during the hearing tried to storm into the courtroom.
Police personnel restricted the protesters from entering the courtroom.
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