In operations I have two main roles, firstly is the obvious operational aspect of any company which has to do with logistics of loan su...

PTsb are going to take away investors tracker mortgages unless they go to capital and interest payments, that story was broken by Charl...

There is an automatic assumption that a strong currency (in particular against the USD) leads to a difficult exporting position because...

It is simple, and it is straight forward, there is a line of people who take the pain when banks encounter problems and it goes like th...

We are not issuing bonds, so the cost of servicing our debt has not magically risen to ‘7%’ because we are not borrowing at that rate, ...

Every calamity in human history tends to have a corresponding scape goat. Often in financial busts it becomes xenophobic, race often pl...

We hear about Debt/GDP all the time (national debt/Gross Domestic Product; total output of the economy) and the standard argument is th...

We have been talking about this for a while (28/01/09, 11/03/09, 23/04/09), it was a popular topic on this blog in 2009 but well covere...

There is one cure for scarcity: abundance. When there is a scarcity of any resource nothing brings down the price quicker than abundanc...

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