The earthquake that hit Japan has to be one of the most tragic events of the last few years – and there have been a few! Over the last 6 or 7 years I have spent a fair bit of time in Japan, always on business. Its a country that I truly love. Actually that [...]
Niall Ferguson, the Scottish economic historian, often talks about people who see economies as balanced ecosystems ignoring the fact that these ecosystems are always teetering on the edge of chaos. The thing that takes the system out of balance and into chaos is often something that has been ignored or discounted as impossible – like [...]
Some people are in denial about climate change. But that already puts a pejorative spin on the concept, doesn't it? And some people are in denial about peak oil. As long as you believe in one of the two above read on… Over the next few years we are going to have to solve a [...]
Yesterday, a leading Australian Academic suggested the fortifying of the Australian National Broadband Network with anti EMP measures. My response was that it was pointless as the public wouldn’t like Valve Radio powered wifi routers, and that we should just send flowers to everyone around the world to make them like us. [...]
Yesterday, the Australian Reserve Bank increased the interest rate so I brought a bicycle, the first one I have owned since the age of 12, forty years ago. What one has to do with the other is not immediately apparent. Stewart Fisks (UK Independent) column today was about what we at Perceptric have [...]
Prologue: Most of us remember the Blair Witch Project and it’s phenomenal box office success based on a number of web pages suggesting it was a real occurrence. Mythology – The Aftermath – The Legacy – The Filmmakers That was an exceptionally clever piece of PR marketing, resulting in one of the highest [...]
All over the world, bankers, economists and Governments are watching the growth of Facebook with envy.Imaging getting a hundred million new customers between April and September. Wow. Pretty good stuff. Wouldnt it be great if we could grow the the country's economy the same way. Well – the good news is – there is a [...]
Here is an op ed piece written by John Gray, the author from The Observer over the weekend: The global financial crisis will see the US falter in the same way the Soviet Union did when the Berlin Wall came down. The era of American dominance is over. Our gaze might be on the markets [...]
Fascinating article by Arnaud de Borchgrave on the background to the recent Georgian war and how the balance of power has changed as a result. He provides the background to the largely unreported role that the Israeli defence forces had in the period leading up to the war, how local airfields were to be used [...]
So let me get this straight. At the moment the Americans are rattling their sabres at the Iranians who, it is alleged bought their nuclear secrets from Halliburton and Halliburton is the company that is profiting most from the rebuilding of Iraq after the war. Meanwhile the Israeli's are threatening Iran too. And in turn [...]