Posted on November 16, 2009 by Nick
Last week, we hit panic stations. We’re turning down work because we’re just too busy. Which is all good news. But what for businesses that are facing up to the harsher realities of the recession? Apparently the government has put lots of measures in place to help businesses get by. Several local Business Link organisations [...]
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Posted on June 5, 2009 by Nick
If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, I hope I’ve been broad enough in my declared opinions for you not to be able to guess which way I vote in political elections. After all, that’s nobody’s business but my own. I’m not going to tell you here how I voted on Thursday [...]
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Posted on June 1, 2009 by Nick
I am watching a manufacturing edifice come crumbling down. As I write, the future of General Motors, a global manufacturing behemoth, hangs in the balance. At least, that’s what the media and politicians would like you to think. There’s a lot of kudos in last-minute rescues, so let’s not pretend all is lost. GM is not [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2009 by Nick
There were heated discussions in the pub last night. We discussed the BBC’s decision not to screen the DEC’s appeal for victims in Gaza (fairly heated). We discussed Celebrity Big Brother (very heated indeed). And then we discussed not one but two resurgences from the 1980s. The first was the return of Tory ex-chancellor Ken [...]
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Posted on December 12, 2008 by Nick
There’s something wrong in the air for the car industry. As I write, in the US, the House of Representatives in the US has just approved a £9bn bailout for the States’ beleaguered car industry (particularly Chrysler and GM- Ford has said it will not be using the bailout money). Sweden has just announced a [...]
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Posted on November 11, 2008 by Nick
This post is going to be a bit odd for me, because I’m going to talk about something I don’t know much about at all- manufacturing. You see, I have always worked in the service sector. I’ve got soft, Fairy Liquid hands because ‘I’ve never done a ‘proper’ day’s work in my life’. I’ve lived [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2008 by Nick
Yesterday, the Monetary Policy Committee cut the base rate of interest by a whopping 1.5%; from 4.5% to 3%. If you’re a homeowner, you’ll know that rates usually change in increments of one quarter of a percent, so a change six times as large is a sure sign of an economy teetering on the edges [...]
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Posted on October 24, 2008 by Nick
I was recently lucky enough to be invited by effervescent entrepreneur Tom Ball of Cognac to a lunch, where a bunch of us business types discussed the doom and gloom of recession, and what we thought businesses could do to survive. I thought you might be interested in their collective wisdom, so, here are some [...]
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