Official inflation in Zimbabwe now stands at over 100,000%. Â Jokes around Zim’s official stats aside, this isn’t even real hyperinflation by historical standards. Germany, in 1922, in the aftermath of Word War I and the Treaty of Versailles experienced inflation of over 200 billion percent. Goes to show how short our memories are (as a…
I was reading an article about the directors of Imperial and Steinhoff purchasing shares in their respective companies. Steinhoff directors made the news when the CEO originally used Single Stock Futures to gear his exposure to a significant position in the company. (This position has since been converted into a direct position with about the…
I’ve added the result of a quick random generation of possible outcomes of two types of individuals. This is not Monte Carlo simulation as has been discussed below, but rather a very simple illustrative example. This will further illustrate the points about in my previous post (and do also read the comments for some more…
…and a lesson about business process optimisation that you should learn The New York Times recently posted an incredibly interesting article about Google, providing more detail about their current search algorithms and processes. Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine is definitely worth a read. Reading the article made we wonder for a moment whether Google…
March 07 inflation in South Africa: CPIX 6.3% year-on-year Measuring inflation Measuring inflation is never easy, and while we have had a few high-profile errors by Stats SA in the last few years, the inflation numbers are probably not that bad. I mentioned some of these difficulties in relation to GDP before. Inflation and Sean…
I mostly use MySQL for ad hoc analytical work for specific projects – the sort of work where Microsoft’s Access product just doesn’t cut it because of the size of the data-sets involved. However, this is really just the tip of the ice-berg for MySQL, which powers a large proportion (I don’t really have any…
David Maister’s blog has an interesting post about the pricing and promotion strategy for a small home-based business. In this case, it’s a pre-school looking for a pricing and promotion strategy. As always, David Maister has some useful suggestions and no doubt his wealth of readers will add some real gold in terms of suggestions…
I’ve said before that I’m not an expert on Search Engine Optimisation, but it certainly is an interesting area where businesses of all sizes can reap definite benefits from applying a little analysis, maths and science to the problem. Have a look at this article explaining, in reasonably simple terms, some of the background behind…
