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Would dropping the value of its currency be good for an economy?
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The Financial Rand was an awkward kludge. Dreamed up by the dreary dictators of Apartheid, it was designed to prevent South Africans from taking their money out of the country. If you wanted to exchange ... Monday, 30 August 2010 -
Finding economic growth when there is no world outside
Category: Blog/Analysis
... The way to change this - to create jobs and reduce poverty - is through economic growth. There must be more people producing more things, and more people must have more money to buy those things. It ... Thursday, 12 August 2010 -
Safety, Stability and Regulating the Regulators
Category: Blog/Analysis
Bernie Madoff holds the dubious title of running the world’s largest Ponzi scheme and getting away with it for almost 20 years. Numerous analysts and journalists demanded that the US Securities and Exchange ... Thursday, 29 July 2010 -
The long, hard road of self-publishing a web comic
Category: Blog/Analysis
... ninja, and his arch-enemies are pirates and is drawn in rich and beautiful imagery. Dinosaur Comics features the exact same three-panel clip-art and only the dialogue changes. Wondermark is the rearrangement ... Thursday, 15 July 2010 -
The process of services commoditisation is happening faster than that for manufacturing
Category: Blog/Analysis
... wrong. Local management proves ineffective. Changes in laws remove the advantages of being there. Power failures destroy productivity. While the process of offshoring existing manufacturing to emerging ... Thursday, 24 June 2010 -
Greece, Goldman and finding the Greater Fool
Category: Blog/Analysis
... rates, were the subprime bonds. In 2006, when the dangers of the US subprime market were becoming obvious to everyone, the portfolio manager of Rhineland, Dirk Rothig, tried to change the focus of the ... Thursday, 10 June 2010 -
Feeding the hungry with freely transferrable bank accounts
Category: Blog/Analysis
... but runs the risk of entrenching existing banks. People don’t tend to change banks because of the difficulty. My suggestion is that, like mobile phone accounts are separate from service providers, bank ... Thursday, 27 May 2010 -
Cash and Ash Crisis demonstrate global interdependency
Category: Blog/Analysis
... at random moments. Animals, like the cheetah, which are super-specialists run the risk of extinction when the circumstances which favour their adaptations change. The human species has done well because ... Thursday, 20 May 2010 -
Tackling the next banking crisis today
Category: Blog/Analysis
The global financial crisis has not changed the nature of economic transactions. What it has shown is the shortcomings in risk assessment and quantification as well as the difficulties of legislating ... Thursday, 13 May 2010 -
Paying for Climate Change with a Carbon VAT
Category: Blog/Analysis
... for climate change debaters is that the extent of the potential damage is very hard to quantify. The impact is also likely to be asymmetrically distributed; poor countries may be affected more than rich ... Thursday, 06 May 2010 -
Poverty and the capacity for technology to bring Change
Category: Blog/Analysis
"The capacity for technology to drive change is limited by two things: the will of the people who use that technology to demand change; and whether governments are willing to murder their own citizens ... Thursday, 22 April 2010 -
Free the people by freeing their bank accounts
Category: Blog/Analysis
... their customers and can exercise a monopoly where customers have to sacrifice their telephone numbers in order to change providers. Starting in the US in 1996 with the First Report and Order on LNP and ... Thursday, 01 April 2010 -
Job creation, innovation and the Apple iPad
Category: Blog/Analysis
... as much on market sentiment as does the conditions of any stock exchange. If ordinary people are happy, positive and excited, then they are more exuberant in their spending habits. Stock prices rise. ... Thursday, 18 March 2010 -
Google and the Cold War that businesses must play
Category: Blog/Analysis
... All of this changed after the public disclosure of Operation Aurora. In mid-December, a large-scale cyber attack was launched by “agents of the Chinese government” against a number of technology companies, ... Thursday, 11 March 2010 -
And the eyes are always on us
Category: Blog/Analysis
... nothing to hide have nothing to fear.” Except the rules change and what was acceptable one day is used against you another. I mention all of this because the Chinese government has demanded the ability ... Thursday, 25 February 2010 -
Copenhagen, Consensus and The Gathering of the Trees
Category: Blog/Analysis
... UN summit on climate change which took place in Copenhagen in December. After decades of research, years of talks and months of preliminary negotiations, the summit ended with a whimper and a partial ... Thursday, 18 February 2010 -
The infinite size of an infinitely sliced fish
Category: Blog/Analysis
... is the image of a trading floor at a stock exchange one of hundreds of people all screaming at the top of their lungs amidst an explosion of paper and gesticulations. Financial markets, by reducing the ... Thursday, 28 January 2010 -
Countdown to Lift - The Race to Build a Space Elevator
Category: Blog/Analysis
... and production will change. The difficulty of economic development and poverty alleviation in the world’s poorest nations will get ever worse. This may all sound needlessly speculative but consider ... Thursday, 21 January 2010 -
Getting democracy right one restaurant at a time
Category: Blog/Analysis
... then a discussion that affects water rights or requires collective action does demand that everyone agree. Where the pattern of life has changed, as division of labour creates increasing social complexity, ... Thursday, 14 January 2010 -
Predicting the future isn't what it used to be
Category: Blog/Analysis
... $ 2 trillion is destroyed on global stock exchanges, the people who work in the companies who lost all that money continue to exist. Analysts who work on population studies can get things wrong just ... Thursday, 07 January 2010
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