In How Not to Lose Money in Make a Million I showed that the game was massively more likely to lose you money than make you money. Â It may be a great way for the promoters to gain some new client and some media coverage, but it’s a really poor way to introduce the masses…
Turns out Australian banks are concerned that their customers have greater confidence and trust in Google and PayPal than in their own institutions. It wasn’t that long ago that financial institutions needed marble-clad offices and multi-decade histories to show that they were serious and were financially stable and could be trusted. Now the organisations that…
Venezuela has just nationalised the local arm of a US bottling company. It shouldn’t be long before this example hits the political spehere in South Africa and enters our own debate on nationalisation. The debate really has (or needs to have) two quite distinct elements: Are nationally owned / publicly managed companies and industries better…
I have a clear strategy for how not to lose money playing the Make a Million competition. As I explain it, you may come up with some smart tactics to win the competition and enhance your returns, but you’re on you’re own there. So, how does one not lose money with the Make a Million…
I haven’t yet found a WordPress plugin that creates really great word / tag clouds. I created this one from my post Clear, Simple and Wrong using Wordle. I think it sums up the post well.
Recently had a discussion around whether government should intervene to influence the exchange rate. Now, I don’t have fully thought-through views on if and when and how and by how much this should be done. Still thinking it through (and having to reconsider many things about currencies, interest rates, inflation, open market purchases, sovereign wealth…
The reason opinions are so cheap is that everyone has one and nobody wants to buy anyone else’s. I’m no different. I’m not going to try to sell you mine. I would like to present you with some ideas to think about before you overpay for someone else’s though. Jon commented on a recent post…
Decreasing interconnect fees was supposed to lower telecoms costs, promote competition and create world peace. It’s done none of these because the logic underlying it was flawed. Analysts focused on interconnect as an expense, happily ignoring the revenue side (since it was a fee paid to another company within the industry). Never has a telecoms…
