It’s not been the best of weeks. Once again, I met up with a friend who told me, mournfully, that she’d had the “Big Meeting” where her company announced a raft of redundancies. She’s got 4 weeks of work, 4 more weeks pay, and that’s it. Now, I know this blog is meant to be [...]
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Unemployment is up by a whopping 160,000 in the past three months- the highest increase in seventeen years. Which means now would be the ideal moment to welcome 160,000 potential entrepreneurs to the world of running their own businesses. I started my first company because I’d just left college, and the sorts of jobs I [...]
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It may seem a bit negative to dwell on bankruptcy and redundancy, but these things do need to be discussed, and there’s a very positive lesson to come out of what I’m about to say. I don’t have any sort of inside contacts at the collapsed Lehman Brothers bank, but it was very sad to [...]
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There is a funny discussion going on at the moment as to whether we’re in a recession or not. A recession is “official” if the economy contracts for two quarters or more. TV and radio debates therefore centre on wriggling as much out of spurious statistics as possible. Let me help. I say: we’re in [...]
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