by Tom | Jul 28, 2009 | Business
Some nice McK articles on thinking coming out of the credit bubble deflating.There are power curves popping up across sectors and event types. We don’t really understand these kind of curves (lots of low impact / intensity events with the occasional shocker),...
by Tom | Jul 22, 2009 | Business
And in the Telegraph, too. House prices have to fall. Just think of the correction when interest rates get up to 4% (for example). For people paying on 0.5% now, that’s going to be an horrendous jump. Added to four-day working and suddenly people will have to...
by Tom | Jun 24, 2009 | Business
I have a growing fondness for experimental economics (feels more like science to me) and the fact that Google considers most of its search operations as an auction and can alter results to perform economic trials is heartening. Let’s just hope they publish some...
by Tom | Apr 8, 2009 | Business, Reading, Science
This is the first really public “download a CAD file and laser cut your own version” that I’ve seen with designer furniture. There will be lots more of these in the future.
by Tom | Apr 8, 2009 | Business, Reading
Long read, but worthwhile. My take outs: our financial models aren’t necessarily built to simulate the scale of depression we are currently in, as we haven’t experienced one for as long as the models have existed. Spending (and therefore national debt) is...
by Tom | Apr 6, 2009 | Business
Interesting thoughts on price sensitivity and scaling of online properties: Assume for example that a service serves photos (like Flickr), and that the hosting, bandwidth and distribution costs, fully loaded, are c $0.10 per month ($1.20 per year) per person. For 100...
