More recently, the UKhaslooked better relative to other European countries. Some part of that is the promise of an end to the profligacy of Gordon Brown, though overall I’m glad he and Alistair Darling handled the crisis itself, rather than the as yet untested Osborne. I’m not sure I ...
Over the last five years, I haven’t bought any stocks that doubled in price (with the exception ofSharesave holdingsof The Firm bought in its existential crisis in 2009, which don’t count as I haven’t taken delivery of them yet) never mind went up tenfold, whereas in the dotcom e...
The Ermine spent a while mulling things over the Winter Solstice in Glastonbury, and read a lot. Reflections and ruminations are not the things for a New Year. It’s aboutcarpe diem, the opportunities on offer, and what with the return of the Eurozone crisis, an election here in the UK ...
But unassociated with that, my concept of making money was massively narrowed by my experience of working life, the unchallenged assumptions of that grammar school kid who followed the default track. Now that I am grizzled of fur and sufficiently past the finish line that I have options all t...
Some Germans must be feeling a fond memory of those stable Deutschemarks that slowly and steadily dragged Germany’s post-war economy out the shit through Konrad Adenauer’sWirtschaftswunderand the French may feel a twinge for the old FFr. It feels like the Euro crisis is limbering up for ...
Of course, there are the usual stalwarts – the Eurozone crisis still hasn’t gone away, and there are of course all the unknown unknowns. At the moment emerging markets are good enough to pique an Ermine’s interest. Isaac Asimov’s visit to the World Fair of 2014 – 50 years ago ...