There is an email doing the rounds at the moment a variation of which I have seen over the years. Nevertheless, it still makes me chuckle. Entitled “economic models explained – an update”, it uses the example of 2 cows to amusingly explain different political and economic systems and country stereotypes.
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There is a sandwich bar across the road from our office that’s been there longer than we have. When we first moved into Clerkenwell in 1989, the area was a little bit of a ghost town and other than this small sandwich bar and ourselves, there weren’t many businesses at all in the area never [...]
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Last Sunday’s papers contained a number of articles and letters about the new government loan guarantee schemes or at least the existing schemes and how they are being implemented by the banks.
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They are digging up the road again outside my office. Apart from the noise, dust and traffic disruption, all of which are a real pain, it causes me personally great irritation and annoyance particularly with the knowledge that this is about the 5th time they have dug up this section of road in the last [...]
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Whilst some of my posts seem to share some of the doom and gloom in the media and on the discussion boards, I really am on a crusade to try and raise business confidence.
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On my recent travels, I met a number of educated Americans who were somewhat concerned about their government’s involvement in the banking sector. As with our situation here, a number of major banking institutions have now effectively been nationalised and as one American put it to me, would you really want these politicians running your [...]
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As some of you may know, I have spent most of February in South America. On my travels through Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, it is no surprise that some of my conversations with taxi drivers, in restaurants, at hotels and just with people we met was on the subject of the global economic downturn.
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