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The blog in 2013

The blog’s audience has continued to set new records in 2013.  It is now well on the way to its 200,000th visit, and is read in 159 countries and 6110 cities as shown in the chart above.  Readers also remain incredibly loyal, with around one in two readers visiting every week, and one in four readers visiting every day. […]

Age range and income level key to future corporate profits

Every parent believes their children are above average – more beautiful and intelligent than anyone else’s.  Economists have a different mind-set in their work at least, as most focus on trying to identify the ‘average person’.  Biologists start from a different perspective again, as their research has led them to discover the concept of ’competing populations’. Which concept […]

China auto sales could drop if lending squeeze continues

Imagine for a moment that you had become president or premier of China following the leadership transition in March.  You know that the country’s economic model has to change.  But you also know that you have to carefully develop your powerbase, whilst also putting in place new policies. Probably you would take things cautiously at […]

The trend is your friend, until it isn’t

Investing in today’s financial markets is relatively easy.  You simply have to believe that governments in the US, Japan and Europe will continue to provide plenty of free cash to investors as part of their Recovery Scenario of a quick return to ‘normal growth’.  It doesn’t matter whether the investor believes in the Scenario, the driver is simply the fear of […]

Deflation far more likely than inflation

The last in the blog’s series on things that we think we know, but may not, looks at the prospects for inflation.  A new survey this week of the world’s wealthiest individuals summed up the consensus view: “If there are two factors that make the rich stand out, on this survey, it is their fear […]

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