Do you Know how to handle Your own Money? Many people don’t. I’m not talking about the multimillionaires. They usually do, and anyway they will have plenty of people wanting to help them. A Financial Advisor can do very nicely for himself if he has a good list of portfolios under his guidance. But don’t…
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Hanging onto your job in the present pandemic crisis is a wholly understandable and sensible thing to do. There are myriads of unemployed, and even more potentially unemployed, out there. You do not wish to join their ranks. It is difficult to remember that we are still in the middle of a terrible crisis. It’s…
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Anyone who has lived almost ninety years will express astonishment at the changes they have seen. From the days when a parked car was a cause of wonder and amazement to the banishing of the oil-fired internal combustion engine, we have lived through near-miraculous developments, the majority of which have been greatly beneficial. Some, of…
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Half America, in round figures, voted for D Trump. Whatever else you call him – and we do call him many things – Democratic is not what comes immediately to mind. The millions of votes cast in his favour are probably not too worried about what Democracy means. What, actually, does it mean? A vote…
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Politicians almost always clash with strong-willed advisors who threaten to become the story at the expense of their masters. So the departure of Dom Cummings from Downing Street was hardly a surprise – except, perhaps, for the method of his leaving. To carry your own box of desk detritus out through the front door of…
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In the context of United States law, originalism is a concept regarding the interpretation of the Constitution that asserts that all statements in the constitution must be interpreted based on the original understanding “at the time it was adopted”. Wikipedia Trump may be nearly gone but Trumpism isn’t. Half the voters in the United States…
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I agree with Jack Ma. Not necessarily about the China banks – I don’t know enough about them to have a view. But when he says that the world needs “bold new players that can extend credit to the collateral poor”, I think he is right. Governments dish out money liberally to prop up their…
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Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, continues her striking leadership by appointing two Opposition Party Members as Ministers in her new government. She also has a Maori as Foreign Minister and many gays in prominent jobs. While we have all been talking about diversity, Ms Ardern has done it. I congratulate her and those colleagues…
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A very wise boss once said to me: “I have just appointed you to a demanding job. It will take a lot of your time but I don’t want you to become obsessed with it. You will do this job best if you are a rounded person, someone who sees all aspects of life, who…
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When the road gets especially rough and the signposts are progressively more confusing, it is time to have strong hands on the steering wheel. No point in exacerbating hazards that already threaten to dislodge the vehicle. Idiots in charge may be fun at times; this is not one of them. Joe Biden may not be…
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