I’ve always found the hype surrounding smart homes overblown, being able to look inside my fridge using a smartphone or saying “Alexa, switch on the lights” ..doesn’t seem to be solving much of a problem. Household keys, on the other …
Experiences shape a generation. Just as the Great Depression and war shaped the Silent Generation, Millennials will be shaped by the Great Recession, student debt and another serve recession/depression. Millennials and the Silent Generation have shared similar economic challenges so …
Jan Vlieghe, a member of the Bank of England’s (BoE) interest-rate setting committee recently made a comparison with the UK’s monetary policy and The Weimar Republic. According to his convoluted logic, we …
“Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?”
According to social psychologist Gustave Le Bon: “The Crowd is always intellectually inferior to the isolated individual.” We are constantly pressured from the crowd in …
Amazon Prime in the UK is £7.99 per month (£95.88 for the year) or £79 for a one-off payment. There’s a whole bunch of internet posts (all paid for affiliates) describing how Amazon Prime is …
I remember when you switched on the news they’d nearly always be a story of a post office or bank that had been robbed at gunpoint. Since moving to a cashless society, those days have gone but it means crime …
“take the red pill … and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes”
Certain topics in life are not to be spoken about, others we’re self-delusional, what’s referred to as cognitive dissonance. Some of these topics are better …
Goodhart’s law is named after Charles Goodhart, a British economist and former professor at the London School of Economics. Goodhart’s law simply states “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to …
There’s a lot of talk on mainstream TV about a V-shaped financial recovery (when things bounce right back). This feels fanciful IMO. The other options are “U” (like in 2008), “W” and the dreaded “L”. Obviously, no one knows the …
The coronavirus pandemic is a world-shattering event, the biggest of our generation, dwarfing 9/11 or the collapse of Lehman Brothers. With so much uncertainty, one thing is for sure: there will be lasting political, economic, social and technological change. As I …