Posts made in September, 2009
A Series: Outside the Box – Those That Draw Beyond Confines No.12 Home Business Model – The Studio
Wizard Idea Autumn Equinox comes at the time just before the days get shorter and the nights get longer, a time when garden chairs, BBQ, lawnmowers and the like, start being taken to the back of sheds and garages and we all start the great hibernation. However, we know of a garden workshop that, as the epitome of a home business, will be wide awake and very active. Throwing pottery,...
Read MoreCrude Economics
We were shown an interesting article recently regarding the parking of ships in shipping lanes. As we understand it these tankers are either transferring cargo, waiting, at sea rather than paying port taxes, for work to come in or waiting for the price of their cargo of crude oil to rise in the world markets. Some local traders are happy because they’re trading with the ships. The speculators...
Read MoreWatching the Twees Change
Seeing the tree skeletons, beginning to appear as Autumn starts up, reminds us of the Big Dead Tree in Dahl’s story of vengeance; in which The Twits use their tree to trap birds by spreading ‘Hugtight’ sticky glue on the branches with the unfortunates being baked in a pie. Baking Bird Pie isn’t by any means The Twits’ only repulsive attitude but (spoiler alert) the story does have a...
Read MoreMore Meat for the G20 to Chew On
At the weekend, the G20 economic Ministers, amongst their discussions, worked on an agreement aimed at protecting global Banking from systemic risks and reforming Bankers’ bonus payments. The contentious areas are likely to be the requirement to hold more and higher quality capital and the setting of leverage ratio, limiting the amount of borrowing by institutions outside the formal Banking...
Read MoreSeptember 2009 News
Market Update: The British Bankers Association has issued figures showing a Gross rise in mortgage lending of £0.3Bn for July 2009. For the same period the Net rise is shown as £1.6Bn; with £2.2Bn for June & £2.9Bn over the last six month period. Total loans for July were £9.7Bn of which £5.2Bn was represented by 38,141 house purchase loans, an increase upon June of 2,577. ...
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