I’ve always curious about the role of the credit rating agencies (you know “Ireland has been degraded to AA, this has been graded a junk bond “– that’s BB by the way). And now, thanks to Addison Wiggins and The Daily Reckoning, I know....
One post on decisions, and lack of knowledge, avoid risk! Now one on taking it…!Our guiding principle in this country is to avoid risk – there are masses of legislation to reduce, avoid and cater for any piddley little risk or unforeseen event that may or...
Actually, don’t..whatever your psychological hang-ups. Which we all have – psychologically we avoid negative advice. But people do not realise that success comes from avoiding losses in the main, rather than making profits.Think about it. Where do you get...
I happened upon my dissertation , written in 1993, on the topic of small business failures and how to avoid them. I’m not claiming to be clairvoyant, but it’s interesting to reflect how things don’t change too much..”The main sources of capital...
Are we getting out of the recession? Will it be a double dip recession? Will we end up like Greece? Will the Germans offer to buy the Isle of Wight and would we care? How will we survive? And what’s this got to do with firefighting??Answers in order:No (or maybe...
I suppose this is my Peter Kaye moment – shower gel is my garlic bread!In my household there is a need to produced detailed specifications of some things which are not important to me, but that’s my problem.Shower gel being one. Which I don’t...
