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Monday, 26th July 2010

Kervin Brisseaux.

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00s, illustration, retro, style

Sunday, 21st March 2010

On stealing…

I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.

›› Bill Gates to Steve Jobs in 1983

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apple, microsoft, xerox

Tuesday, 16th March 2010

The Unreasonable Institute.

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business, idea, incubator, start-up

Monday, 1st March 2010

Investment advice…

When it’s raining gold, reach for a bucket,
not a thimble.

›› Warren E. Buffett

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investing, letter, stock market, usa, warren buffet

Monday, 8th June 2009

How to be happy in business.

[Via swissmiss]

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diagram, happiness, money, success, Venn

Thursday, 14th May 2009

Cards of change.

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business, idea, namecard, unemployment, work

Monday, 20th April 2009

What is wrong with the world today?

Set up a torrent tracker, get fined, go to jail.

Join a bank, destroy the economy, profit.

›› Umair Haque, from the Havas Media Lab

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copyright, economy, file sharing, justice, pirate

Tuesday, 24th March 2009

Possibly the best Obama cartoon yet.

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bailout, barack obama, cartoon, economy, editorial, illustration, politics, president, terrence nowicki jr

Monday, 16th March 2009

On economic turning points…

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

›› John Kenneth Galbraith

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economy, future, prediction, stock market

Wednesday, 21st January 2009

Six lessons for investors.

Some wise words from John Bogle…

Beware of market forecasts, even by experts.
Never underrate the importance of asset allocation.
Mutual funds (or, unit trusts) with superior performance records often falter.
Owning the market remains the strategy of choice.
Look before you leap into alternative asset classes.
Beware of financial innovation.

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advice, index, index funds, investing, unit trust

Monday, 19th January 2009

On bailing out the banks…

I remember a time when banks lent money to people. Now it’s the other way around.

›› Thomas L. Friedman quoting a lawmaker on the television

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banking, crisis, Finance, funny, recession, truth

Monday, 27th October 2008

Hells Bells.

[The] last time AC/DC made No 1 in Britain, the country was on the brink of recession. Back In Black, the album that marked their commercial breakthrough and went on to become the second biggest-selling of all time, was released in 1980, just as inflation had reached 20% and unemployment inched towards 2 million.

›› The Guardian analyses the timings of AC/DC’s chart successes

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economy, musician, old age, pop, recession, rock

Tuesday, 21st October 2008

The Oracle of Omaha says…

A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.

›› Warren Buffet has his plate filled with American picks

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america, economy, Finance, greed, investing, philosophy, stock market, warren buffet

Thursday, 25th September 2008

US Treasury on the US$700bn bailout…

It’s not based on any particular data point… We just wanted to choose a really large number.

›› A Treasury spokeswoman confides in Forbes.com

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america, crisis, Finance, money, mortgage, treasury

Wednesday, 17th September 2008

The financial state of the union.

No better illustration exists of a culture where private gain has eclipsed the public good, public service, even public decency, and where the cult of the individual has caused the commonwealth to wither… That’s the culture we’ve lived with. It’s over now. Some new American beginning is needed.

›› Roger Cohen from the IHT lambasting the financial sector