Arts
Bacon Baguettes & Round Laces
My old chum Carruthers came to stay last week, he works for a major airline & has seen plenty of the world in the last forty years, as indeed I have myself. We somehow got [more…]
Business
Business
Every Folly Has Its Consequences
The great Spanish master, Francisco Goya, expressed it concisely: “The sleep of reason produces monsters”. Today, wherever you look, insanity masquerades as rational thought. Lunatics flout their blatantly potty views as if they carried the [more…]
America
Keeping Economics Simple
The US Department of Defence is a major customer of many private sector suppliers, including the Boeing Company. Although relationships between customer and supplier are mutually beneficial, that is by no means the only reason [more…]
Business
The Necessary and Inevitable Recession to Come
Perhaps the most destructive premise of modern, mainstream economics is that a central bank-induced monetary/credit expansion can cause an economy to grow without adverse consequences. Let’s be perfectly clear from the start…this policy has been [more…]
Arts
The Truth About Central Banks
Most of the world takes it for granted that central banks are necessary for the smooth conduct of trade, both foreign and domestic. Nothing could be further from the truth. Let’s be clear. Central banks [more…]
Arts
My word is my bond
“File:Handshake (16671886014).jpg” by Mark Morgan from Trinidad is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Much has been made in recent days on “bond rolls” and “gilts”. As a technologist working in the financial sector I get [more…]
Arts
The Bid Process
In every bid process it is important to identify who you are dealing with, the first is pretty obvious – your customer, or potential customer at least. Keep them sweet, give them what they want [more…]
Arts
Lloyds of London ‘My Word is my Bond’ A Page in the Diary
6am: Unleash bowel movement Purging yesterdays Petrol washed translucent flake cocaine, continental lager and sundry sweet meats. 6.10am: Get up. 6.11am: Think about Killing Myself. Shower/power wank while thinking of the Receptionists Feet , toe [more…]