The Professor
Stakeholders v stockholders
The notion that stakeholders and stockholders battle for control of major business corporations is an oversimplification of a much more complex reality involving managers, regulators, investors and...
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Desert Diary 5
This article was originally published on 8 August 2018. Fitting in as a fifty-something in a country so diametrically different from one’s own is no easy thing. Apart from the...
The Fund Manager
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is technology’s next ten-bagger stock
In the past 18 years, after a series of spectacular and occasionally failed rocket launches, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has emerged as Silicon Valley’s next colossus, a once in a...
The Economist
Where does money come from?
Money is an indispensable part of modern economic activity. It was not always so: barter, where goods trade directly for other goods, was the norm for most of human history. But...
The Farmer
Managing tenants and coexisting with wildlife
This article was originally published on 11 April 2018. I received a text message recently from the tenant of our converted granary. It requested that I telephone her...
The Architect
Blueprint for the modern embassy
This article was originally published on 30 April 2018. The recent completion of the hugely expensive new US Embassy in London and the continued controversy around the US...
The Professor
Housing post COVID-19 in the United States
BACKGROUND There has been much discussion and commentary concerning the presumed, hoped for, and anticipated days when we are in post-pandemic times. Questions abound, such as:...
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