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The investor's conundrum. The first quarter of the 21st century has been a rough ride for financial markets and consequently for the investors that they serve. Is there any good reason to expect the rest of the century to be any smoother? Not so long ago, a claim could credibly be made that “Real...
Originally published July 2022. The public sector is the largest UK landowner and space occupier, with local authorities owning and managing the majority of the real estate...
Originally published July 2022. It is likely that all readers know that WFH means 'work from home', VR is virtual reality and crypto refers to various crypto currencies like...
John McWhorter has written an important book – a heretical book, really, because in today’s America, black men are anathema if they believe what he believes, or write what he...
Here’s what it revealed about sentience. Originally published June 2022. Nay, nay, I say! This cannot be,That machines should e'er surpass our art.We are the masters, them the...
The powerful and prestigious Federal Reserve is having a tough year in 2022 in at least three ways: It has failed with inflation forecasting and performance;It has giant...
It’s time to prepare for the near future. As the world slowly and unevenly emerges from the two years of pandemic lockdowns, we are entering a new normal that is increasingly...
We’re in the middle of a remote working revolution. In the UK, though remote working was slowly growing before the pandemic, in 2020 the number of people working from home...
The radical history of Australia’s property market. Skyrocketing property prices and an impossible rental market have seen growing numbers of Australians struggling to find...
We continue with the next instalment in the series on Nobel laureate authors, some of whom may not stand the test of time. In terms of sheer volume, it is hard to beat...