Dont Let Old People Run Things.
I guess this is what happens when you let someone who is used to old technology run a company that is new technology. Source – Business Insider
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Great little piece on the gains in markets under various economic philosophies. This is the most telling chart from the article. You will note that we rank 17th out of 18 countries and the laissez–faire Yanks rank 15th. The orignal article from which this chart is drawn can be found here and it makes a…
DetailsWhat Bubble?
Great chart from The Atlantic regarding venture capital activity in and around social media.
Millionaire Households
If you were asked to generate a list of which countries had the most millionaires as a percentage of their population would you have come up with this list. Proportion of millionaire household by market 1. Singapore 15.5% 2. Switzerland 9.9% 3. Qatar 8.9% 4. Hong…
DetailsTim Harford on Unexpected Economics
Tim Harford who does a wonderful series of podcast on the BBC – all of which are available on itunes talks about finding economic lessons in unusual places.
Holy Crap Batman
Someone dropped this into my inbox. It is 20 facts about the US housing market generated by Economic Collapse I think everyone in their right mind agress that the US housing market has essentially dropped its guts all over the US economy but these facts are fascinating in the level of damage it has done…
DetailsWho Is OPEC?
Greta little information graphic on the make up of OPEC from mintlife
Commodities
I have seen a few pieces online in recent weeks predicting the end of the world as we know it because of soaring commodity prices. Some such as Jeremy Grantham one of the founders and Chief Strategist of Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo (GMO) is predicting a paradigm shift in commodity prices. To quote the opening…
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