London Stock Exchange valuation
The prospect of flotation or merger requires that a value be set on the London Stock Exchange. The figure is around £500m. ...
Mobile phone auctions
Since the days when victorious rulers distributed enemy property among their lieutenants, governments have derived patronage and revenu...
Dot and Com
Once upon a time, Uncle Sam had a good idea. Or, to be more accurate, his niece and nephew, Dot and Com, had a good idea. ...
Cruickshank review of banking
Don Cruickshank’s recent review of the banking sector concluded that British consumers overpay between £3bn and £5bn per year for their...
Rational economic man
Economists still analyse the behaviour of rational economic man. He is constantly maximising. At work, he steers a balance...
Droit de suite
Van Gogh was completely unsuccessful in marketing his paintings during his lifetime. But some of them have recently sold for almo...
Rip off Britain
“Rip-off Britain” has turned into something of a damp squib. It turns out that some goods cost more in Britain than elsewhere, so...
“Do the math”
“Do the math”. The slogan comes from Jim Clark, creator of Silicon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon. It has ...
Beer
It is a mile from my London office to my London home, and when I first walked that distance ten years ago I passed seven pubs. A...
Business trends in the next century
Perhaps it was an alcoholic haze, perhaps a version of the Millennium Bug. But over the year-end celebrations I thought I saw a ...