I don’t envy you if you want to invest. America is broke and getting broker. Europe is in chaos with the weak getting weaker and the strong getting fed-up with supporting them. Britain is no better, embroiled in wars we …
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Not sorted out your summer holidays yet? How about a trip to the Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan?
I get regular messages from my friend Greg Waggett, an ex-army chap who makes his living in dangerous places. (He also used to correspond regularly with David Ogilvy, but that’s another story) Here’s his latest, only of interest to those …
Read MoreMr. Cameron’s moral collapse and other current farces
Yesterday David Cameron spoke out about stopping the “slow motion moral collapse” that is happening here. Which collapse was he referring to? Was it poverty-stricken little him getting a mortgage which cost taxpayers £21,000 a year? Didn’t his £2 million …
Read MoreWhat do internet suckers and the British rioters have in common? Mental disability
You can learn a lot about human nature if you study crooks and their marks. For example I did a webinar a while ago analysing the brilliant copy of a U.S. TV “Bishop” who extracts money from gullible poor folk. …
Read MoreCall this a riot? A mere squabble compared to what our glorious ancestors got up to
Since history is no longer taught in our schools few will be aware of the Gordon Riots back in the 18th century which lasted for a week. In the summer of 1780 a mob of up to 60,000 people destroyed …
Read MoreThe great panic: how about a little perspective? Take a step back in time
Are you worried about what’s happening. About governments printing money, for instance? Then come with me on a visit to the ’70’s. In 1972 the amount of money in circulation in Britain went up by 28%. And just to make …
Read MoreDo you have to win no matter who suffers? Plus Bird’s Last Hurrah
This is fair warning. In November I’m coming to Australia. Leave before it’s too late. It is exactly 40 years since I first visited, in a desperate state after my business had gone down the pan. I spent six weeks …
Read MoreHow I saved nigh on £2,500 on THE most important commodity in business – with an opportunity for one person reading this
I’ve told this story before, but I was reminded because of a favour an old client asked of me. The most important commodity in your business once you’re more than a one man band is people. You can’t do it …
Read MoreA free marketing lesson – just a short walk away
I’ll explain why I wrote that heading in a moment, but it’s about why some businesses thrive and others flop. First, let me ask: do you ever find yourself being infuriated by something stupid? I do, all the time. It’s …
Read MoreStartling glimpses of the ludicrous and incompetent
During the time of the South Sea Bubble, Britain’s first great financial collapse, people would fall for anything. My favourite example which I recall from my school-days was a scheme to import jackasses from South America. This was not necessary …
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