It has been very interesting to follow the news related to these topics lately. The EMI downsizing and the subsequent artists strike show that finally some sort of equilibrium has now been restored. Allow me to explain in simple economics what I mean. The music industry is and has been for a large number of years, totally rubbish. The output has ( Read more... )

Recently I have suddenly realised how vulnerable I am to financial exploitation. It was triggered by the hotel in Jersey billing me for an unpaid bar bill that I never ran up. A normal dispute which I wont bother going into the details. However, the shocking part is that they took the money off my credit card TEN DAYS after I left and BEFORE they ( Read more... )

And so people are frantically pulling their cash out of Northern Rock and dumping their savings anywhere they can whether it be in a tin under the bed or another newly opened bank account. The other banks must be loving this as attracting new customers is notoriously hard. Statically people are more loyal to their banks than their spouses! They ( Read more... )

Well the weekend proceeded as expected. And also as aniticated, my tolerance of alcohol has fallen quite dramatically. Not a bad thing I guess, but I really did feel rather rough this morning. A nice fattening breakfast with coffee, smoothie and peppermint tea, fixed me nicely ( Read more... )