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And for that reason, my mum’s out
I recently looked at contributing to a bridging loan to a company to complete a residential care home for the elderly. I’ll keep the numbers round for confidentiality reasons. The key financials seem...
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Russia is big
I’ve seen this in several places today, “Amazing fact. Tiny Bangladesh has more people than Russia”: Hat tip The projection used in maps can distort thing (the land area of England and Bangladesh is...
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Peak online dating
According to several sites, today, the first Sunday in January, is the busiest of the year in online dating. You might try mymateyourdate.com (Disclosure: I’m on the company’s advisory board). It’s...
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A couple of stats
I went to a brunch briefing recently, titled ” The Future of Europe: An Investor’s Guide” where I was especially impressed with one of the panelists, Louise Cooper. A couple of her observations struck...
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Give me some sugar
Can you see what is wrong with this graph? It switches from being a chart for the UK to one for the US in the 1970s. Why would it do that? This graph which is actually for UK sugar consumption shows a...
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BBC’s misleading Tax Credit graphic
The BBC currently use this graphic in Tax Credit articles: The middle-earning couple are NOT better off due to changes in the Tax Credit system, it has no impact on them whatsoever, so the chart title...
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Nature of the firm
A fundamental change over the 20th century, paraphrased from a Paul Graham article: In the early 20th century, big companies were synonymous with efficiency, as compared to delivering a product using a...
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….humanity was spending 39,757 collective years on [Facebook], every single day. Jonathan Taplin points out that this is ‘almost fifteen million years of free labour per year’. That was back when it...
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