Headlines and Bread lines
It’s really clear across multiple sectors that we are between two capital cycles. Central banks are starting to reduce interests rates.
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Philip Ammerman
Feb 23
CAKE MOTORCYCLES ENTERS BANKRUPTCY
I've recently written a brief analysis of the Cake motorcycles. Cake was probably the leader in the European electric motorcycle market....
Philip Ammerman
Nov 18, 2023
HOTEL ECONOMICS PRIMER
I stay in a lot of hotels each year. Some of these stays are planned; some occur by chance. Regardless of the country, one common factor...
Philip Ammerman
Aug 7, 2023
THE ENSHITIFICATION OF EVERYTHING
When on vacation, you tend to see things more clearly. What I see very clearly is the tremendous stupidity of attention-seeking idiots...
Philip Ammerman
Jul 29, 2023
TIMOTHY SNYDER ON UKRAINE AND RUSSIA
The Financial Time has a brilliant Lunch with the FT interview with Timothy Snyder, the Yale historian whose "Making of Modern Ukraine"...
Philip Ammerman
Jul 29, 2023
CAN THE LEOPARD CHANGE ITS SPOTS?
This post may sound a little bit naïve, but here it goes. I’m on vacation in Vienna: we arrived yesterday, walked around, slept, etc. and...
Philip Ammerman
Feb 6, 2023
LAND VALUE TAXES
Martin Wolf has a typically thoughtful article in the Financial Times on the benefits of a land value tax (Sunday, 6 February 2023). In...
Philip Ammerman
Jan 8, 2023
LEIVADIAKOS
Yesterday (Saturday) was not a great day. Exhaustion caught up with me, as did the strain of having to make some major decisions. And...
Philip Ammerman
Jan 6, 2023
Heavy Metal
Bloomberg Law sent samples of baby food distributed in the United States to chemical laboratories for testing. The results? Baby food in...
Philip Ammerman
Nov 9, 2022
COMPLETELY OUT OF TOUCH?
I'm surprised at the arrogance shown by Bloomberg’s Editors to call the Democratic Party “out of touch” in its 8 November editorial. ...
Philip Ammerman
Oct 20, 2022
THE POLITICS OF FAILURE
Like many others, I’ve been watching the UK Gov meltdown with astonishment. Part of this is a sourcing issue: 3 of 9 mainstream media I...
Philip Ammerman
Oct 10, 2022
THE NEW NORMAL
For some years now, I've been wondering if economic statistics reflect reality. At least, reality as experienced by business managers and...
Philip Ammerman
Sep 21, 2022
Russian Mobilisation
Today President Putin announced a partial call-up of 300,000 reservists, and repeated his threat on the use of nuclear weapons. I have...
Philip Ammerman
Sep 8, 2022
Using examples of democracy to … condemn democracy
Matthew Karnitschnig published a logically absurd article in Politico on September 8th. Entitled “Putin's attack on democracy is working....
Philip Ammerman
Aug 31, 2022
Remembering Courage
I have been reading obituaries marketing the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, who died yesterday at the age of 91. Let me begin this post by...
Philip Ammerman
Aug 20, 2022
Karma Debt
I’m sitting here at Costa Coffee on a Saturday morning, hard at work. The place is absolutely full of beautiful young people. Sometimes...
Philip Ammerman
Aug 15, 2022
Bourbon
So … the nice lady asks me what I would like to drink. I answer “Bourbon, please.” Blank stare. “What is bourbon?” I scrambled to define...
Philip Ammerman
May 28, 2022
US University Leadership Gender Gap
Statista reporting on university leadership equality and diversity, as found in a report by the EOS Foundation. It makes for grim...
Philip Ammerman
May 9, 2022
Josep Borrell's $ 300 billion Good Idea
Reading the Financial Times this morning, I came across this: EU capitals should consider seizing frozen Russian foreign exchange...
Philip Ammerman
Apr 29, 2022
A LETTER TO AEGEAN
Dear Sir, Madam, I issued my one-way ticket ATH-LCA on Aegean A390 at an insanely high price (EUR 243.85 / Lite) for a 90 minute flight....
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