Some relatively interesting thoughts (here) on how old media can become new media from a “smart, fast, and nimble next generation strategy consulting firm” – their words not mine – called Activate. In short, their advice is to build your own start-up free from existing business structures. Or to put it another way – ‘your existing [...]
One really interesting under-current in the sell-off in global markets overnight was that gold was up on the night. Is this a sign of things to come? Gold, and the precious metals complex more generally, has kept pace with the stupendous rally in equity markets over the last 18 months. There have been various theories [...]
For all those keeping tabs on the development of social media globally, great slideshow here from Insite Consulting: Social Media around the World View more presentations from InSites Consulting.
I thought that McKinsey’s report on “The Asset Management Industry in 2010″ (published in 2006) was a pretty interesting read (it was recently linked to by Market Folly but has since been removed at the request of the authors). You could probably still dig it up (it isn’t immediately obvious on McKinsey’s website – for [...]
Paul Krugman is a man with influence. When he says “essentially the whole advanced world, accounting for 70 percent of world GDP at market prices, is in a liquidity trap” (in the New York Times) – there is a good chance that a good part of said advanced world will listen. On this basis alone, I’m [...]
A long time back we looked at ‘internal devaluation’ and particularly how it was being imposed on Latvia. (Click on – Internal devaluation defined – to view the original post). I thought the craze might catch on – but the struggling developed world would prefer to take a less obviously painful path. Having said that it [...]
Following is a chart from Silicon Alley Insider on Apple’s revenue mix by product: I undertook a recent survey on the iPhone – warning the sampling error might be large (the sample size was small..okay it was the kid at the local liquor shop). The result of the survey was “the iPhone is too large”, [...]
Next time you are wondering about the current population of Australia – the ABS has it here: On 2 February 2010 at 11:40:15 AM (Canberra time), the resident population of Australia is projected to be: 22,137,700 This projection is based on the estimated resident population at 30 June 2009 and assumes growth since then of: one [...]
It all makes sense now…
Just got time for a little reflection – through the lenses of our favourite memes. Honorable mentions go to ‘Carry Trade‘ and the ‘New Normal‘ – but the winners of the top financial cliches of 2009 are… #5 ‘Internal devaluation‘ – the cliche that got away. Never really had the zing to make it in [...]
