Posted on May 31, 2010 by Nick
New entrepreneurs, on the cusp of starting their own businesses, generally fall into two categories: People with no idea what to do, but the urge to try something new People with a brilliant/hare-brained idea, but no idea how to execute it In the second category are a fabulous breed of people: the hobbyists. Turning a [...]
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Posted on July 8, 2008 by Nick
Soothsayers and sleight-of-hand merchants, magicians and Victorian side-show owners. They’re as good a bet in understanding the current economic climate as anyone in the press. I mean, what sort of misguided fool would proffer their opinion on this recession? Who’d be daft enough to stick their head above the parapet? Er… me. I can’t help [...]
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Posted on February 28, 2008 by Nick
Yesterday, Hector Sants, Chief Executive of the Financial Services Authority, warned that banks will have to change the way they do business. For finance fans, he specifically said that banks will have to keep more of their loans on their own books rather than selling them on- which was one of the causes of the [...]
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