Welcome to 2009! I'll put some thoughtful commentary here next week about the outlook for the year, but here's an interesting idea spotted in the Telegraph the other day. The Post Office approached children to design their literature for their financial services products, and their answers are brilliant. Asked to explain 'inflation', seven year old…
Welcome to 2009! I'll put some thoughtful commentary here next week about the outlook for the year, but here's an interesting idea spotted in the Telegraph the other day. The Post Office approached children to design their literature for their financial services products, and their answers are brilliant. Asked to explain 'inflation', seven year old…
It's Christmas Eve and you're still reading my blog … having said that, it's Christmas Eve and I'm still blogging … So, I was going to post something serious, and then thought: "what the heck, it's Christmas!" and decided instead to pick on one of my favourite TV shows, Frasier. There's one particular episode that…
I always enjoy reading the Week magazine, and this week's Week is a belter. It's reviewing the stories of the last week and the last year, with the Bernie Madoff affair figuring large. Two things stood out from their coverage of the Madoff story. First, a quote from Warren Buffett: "it is when the tide…
