I’ve been wondering how this year would start and so far the answer seems badly. What with David Bowie’s death on the same day as I catch man-flu, could it get any worse? Well yes. I wake up to the headline: Sell everything ahead of stock market crash, say RBS economists. NNNNOOOOOOO!!!!! Royal Bank of…
To complete my discussion this week about the future world of longevity, and its impact on savings and investments, many of you may have missed the speech by Andy Haldane, Chief Economist at the Bank of England and Executive Director, Monetary Analysis and Statistics about robots replacing humans during the next few decades. It caused a…
I’ve been asked the same question twice this week in two separate conferences (one in Vienna, the other in San Francisco): “how will we deal with the corruptive forces when we are all on the net?” The second questioner clarified what she meant by referencing the film Enemy of the State, where Will Smith gets…
So yesterday, I said that bitcoin will not escape the regularity focus. This is a philosophical debate, rather than a technical one, and may be decided by the precedents that have gone before as the internet of money is actually Net 6.0. What I mean by this is that the internet has undergone at least…
Sticking with the future predictions, I usually quote the great American baseball player Yogi Berra: “it’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future”. He had quite a few comments of that ilk: “the future isn’t what it used to be”, and it is certainly true. It is particularly true when we look at the…
I always like to start the New Year by making a bunch of predictions, but have been beaten to it this year by the Financial Times. Therefore, I will make some specific banking and technology predictions this week but, as I like to look at the economic and social changes in the year, the easier way to…
I always like to start the New Year by making a bunch of predictions, but have been beaten to it this year by the Financial Times. Therefore, I will make some specific banking and technology predictions this week but, as I like to look at the economic and social changes in the year, the easier way to…
