By Martin Skinner I noticed this amazing car and fascinating story in the Sunday Times the other day and thought I’d share it with you. The off-roader built tweet by tweet. It highlights the momentum that crowd sourcing is building up, and suggests it is likely to be much more broadly adopted in the years [...]
Safety In Numbers
By Martin Skinner The debate over our recovery from recession continues to rage and provides an amazing insight into the different ways economic facts and figures can be interpreted. Forecasting is a tough game these days and I will simply express my opinion that we are experiencing a recovery more akin to a craggy[rock]-V than [...]
One step back two steps forward
The Bank of England will this week be deciding on the quantitative easing commitment for the next three months. Despite in all likelihood treating the unexpectedly awful GDP result for Q3 with cautious scepticism the bank is likely to be more aggressive with its digital money injection (hopefully £30bn+) than if the figures reported had [...]
The economist is dead, long live the economists !
I’m going to start with a few long words so I sound like I REALLY know all about economics and then you can tell me how impressed you are … ok, ready? Go! Traditional economic forecasts and econometric models said it couldn’t happen. But it did happen and it might happen again. … as [...]
News Review: MP Wife Swaps
MP Wife Swaps Some 200 MP’s affected by the ban on employing their wives are considering defying the ruling by employing each others’ wives. Eve Burt said “We have had the conversation about swapping jobs endlessly, they are water-cooler conversations. It would be an option. We did work out a very complicated ‘giant wife swap’ [...]
News Review: Jenson Button F1 World Champion
Another year another British winner of the F1 World Championship – amazing considering the talent there is in the sport already & the global pool of drivers competing just to enter it. And can you think of a more exciting year of F1? I can’t. Just amazing – teams & drivers pushing themselves to an extraordinary [...]
News review: Force jobless to work
By Martin Skinner A quick rundown of the weekends news for you … Force jobless to work Brilliant idea and about time it got implemented – those out of work are currently easily tempted to stay out of work by excess support and centrally planned get-to-work schemes. As government spending has to contract this is [...]
