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Absolutely nothing to do with banking but, as I think of this as a dialogue, I wanted to share a few stories with the Finanser community that made me smile this week, as well as made me proud to be in Europe. First was the Swedish court case against Apoteker, the state-run pharmacy.  Two chaps…

We use the word crisis to mean danger and opportunity, and yesterday I blogged about what that means for local communities, who are using the current crisis to create local currencies. Today, it’s time to take a reality check regarding property.  For some, buying a house is an investment, for others it is a home,…

We use the word crisis to mean danger and opportunity, and yesterday I blogged about what that means for local communities, who are using the current crisis to create local currencies. Today, it’s time to take a reality check regarding property.  For some, buying a house is an investment, for others it is a home,…

We use the word crisis to mean danger and opportunity, and yesterday I blogged about what that means for local communities, who are using the current crisis to create local currencies. Today, it’s time to take a reality check regarding property.  For some, buying a house is an investment, for others it is a home,…

Following on from previous entries, U2 are now the subject of a scandalous lack of privacy when their new album, No Line on the Horizon, was filched by a tourist in the South of France.    The tourist happened to be walking past Bono’s house just as Bono stuck the demo cuts on the iPod,…

Following on from previous entries, U2 are now the subject of a scandalous lack of privacy when their new album, No Line on the Horizon, was filched by a tourist in the South of France.    The tourist happened to be walking past Bono’s house just as Bono stuck the demo cuts on the iPod,…

As most of you know, I’m always messing about with internet applications for social networking, virtual worlds, future tech, gadgets, games and so on and so forth. There’s always a reason for this, as in it’s fun, but I like to think it’s all work-related fun of course. So I was messing around with social…

According to the media in Britain this week, it’s all doom and gloom in the financial markets. Unemployment numbers up, inflation rising, house prices tanking, the euro sliding and oil and gold prices sunk.  The press are even forecasting that China and India’s economic boom is over and the whole world is slipping into recession….