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Blogs I like, and why…

by Hugh on December 15, 2008

If you’re as interested in d’interweb as I am, and you have a vested interest in it (it pays my bills!), then you’re very likely to have some favourite blogs which you frequent on an ongoing basis.  So, I thought i’d share some of mine!  Here goes…

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Why stock traders are stupid

by Hugh on October 17, 2008

Many things are to blame for our global ‘recession’. One of them – in Ireland at least – has been the endless vanity splurge for home buyers. In the past five to ten years we have turned into a nation of people hungry to own our own property, at whatever cost. This in turn has ramped up assumed demand, therefore prices, and the end result for some people is a not so good situation where they’re in negative equity. Thank fuck i’m not one of them. But what else causes unease and uncertainty in markets, causes panic in various economies, and puts pension investments – and other funds from the pockets of every day earners – into jeopardy?  Stupid stock trading, that’s what.

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