Topic: money
03 Jun 2009
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) And Trust
It is good to measure what we are doing. Evaluating our assets, our abilities and our behaviour all need good tools and clearly defined standards. Good rules require good measurements and specific definitions. Up to a point… More »
Topics: key performance indicators, money
12 May 2009
Eight Solutions To The Recession
The IMF announcement of a toxic asset hole of probably $4 Trillion is shocking but not unexpected. Some of us believe that the statement is a ‘warmer’ and that there will be more to come. It is said that worse figures have already been presented in Washington. More »
05 Dec 2008
Preparing For The Downturn
In a climate of anxiety about the future, when whole countries are going bankrupt, it is prudent to reduce non-essential spending to a minimum. In naval terms, ‘batten down the hatches’. But random cuts based on what is easiest to eliminate are not a good idea. While a target reduction in costs is essential the specific items to be cut need to be very carefully considered. How do you decide where to slash? More »
Topics: decision making, economics, money
05 Nov 2008
Crisis Or Opportunity?
American citizens are justly angry at their taxes being used to bail out the reckless and fraudulent money-go-round of the financial system. The badly squeezed middle-class all over the world are already carrying the bulk of the costs since they pay most taxes, support young and old and work nineteen hours a day to produce the incomes on which society depends. In our attempted correction of the damage that has been done we should be supporting not punishing them. More »
Topics: capitalism, economics, financial, money
06 Oct 2008
Who’s Looking After Your Money
Not as important as your health or your soul, looking after your money is still high on the list of things you want to get right. That is why bankers, finance and fund managers are paid more than most people - more, certainly, than doctors and priests. More »
Topics: business practices, financial, money
22 Sep 2008
Inflation – The Economy’s Vulture
Half the people alive today have never experienced serious inflation. They will shortly. At the end of it, many will have starved to death. Those remaining will live in a very different world from that of the past fifty years. Cheap food, easy personal mobility, considerable leisure time, increasingly high medical standards. All these are going to be severely dented by ‘the enemy within’ – inflation. More »
08 Jul 2008
What Shall We Do With Our Money?
Think that the financial crises encompassing the globe have little to do with you and me? Wrong - we are the people who are paying for them all. More »
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