November 2008 - Hot or Not

Shoplifters Of The World Buck The Recession

Editor / 30 November 2008 / Leave a comment

It's at times like these when I realise that Britain is not what it was; the NYT reports on 'Silver-Haired Shoplifters On the Rise In Japan' and what are we Brits doing to catch up with our Asian counterparts?...Read more »

VAT Fraud And Market Dumbness

Editor / 26 November 2008 / Leave a comment

IT'S always nice to see the faint glimmerings of comprehension in the old media when it comes to justifying their massive expenditure on business and financial journalists, but I'm disappointed in so many of them missing the blindingly obvious on...Read more »

Oil Will Be Back

Editor / 12 November 2008 / Leave a comment

VERY soon the oil in your car's engine will be worth more than the car. And this is not to say that the oil prices are going up faster than a Spanish housing estate....Read more »

Obama Bounces Like A Dead Bush

Editor / 06 November 2008 / Leave a comment

MAKING money in the credit crunch: Going long on Obamas. THIS morning the FTSE experience its biggest ever tenth-of-a-second fall. Fact!...Read more »

Fiddling Big Pharma

Editor / 04 November 2008 / Leave a comment

A little off topic, but here's one about big pharma, George Bush and a one-armed violinist: I don't really have it in for the US Food and Drug Administration, one of the many failed regulators of the Bush/Blair era, but...Read more »