About eight years ago I wrote an article about David Bowie, and how he’d been very astute in collateralising his future royalties. It was in response to claims in the gutter press that he’d been responsible, by doing so, for the credit crunch! For many of us, Bowie was the most influential artist of the…
You remember the Frankie Goes to Hollywood song Two Tribes, right? The one with the line “one is all that you can score”? Well war is big business now and many of you will have read my Final Word magazine article back in the August ’15 edition called “War! What Is It Good For? Absolutely…
I wrote last time on insurance companies and how our themed watchlist should now include them on the short side. My TA on the weather back in October has proved right in doubting a cold winter. Even if it gets cold now, it’s been so mild that energy companies must be hurting. 2015 has already…
Last October I started building a themed watchlist and I think we can now start to add more definitively to the list. The basis of the list is the Met Office report that expects the next two years to be the hottest on record. In my second piece on the subject I did some TA…
When the Soviet Union broke up Ukraine did a deal with Russia, France, the UK and USA, embodied in the Budapest Memorandum of 1994. It gave up its nuclear arsenal in return for assurances from those nations that its borders would be respected. In an address I attended last year, Lord Robertson, former Labour Defence…
One of the things I really like about Sweden is there are fewer people there than there are here in London. About 1 for every 14 because the place is huge and has a smaller population. Their idea of a busy bar is actually reasonably comfortable compared to the crowd densities you see here. And…
The main markets just now are a bit like watching paint dry. So when thinking about them my mind drifts onto other things like: if The Great Pottery Throwdown is a clay based version of The Apprentice, will they have a post mortem for each eliminated candidate called You’ve Been Fired? The FTSE 100 continues…
Some geezer has been pinged into space. Why should I care he’s from the UK, let alone be proud? Do I know him personally? No. Did I have anything to do with his training or the decision to send him into space? No. Did I contribute anything at all to the exercise? No. So should…
There are lots of platitudes in trading, just as there are in every field of human endeavour. One or two are useful, and probably absolute in practical terms. For example, “no price is too low to fall, or too high to rise”. That’s a useful piece of information. But many of them are just complete…
I’ve got a Twitter account. You might like to follow me on it: @Adrian_KC Historically I’ve not used it much because it’s fallen short of Facebook for discourse. You can’t make a proper qualified statement on Twitter because the 140th character is likely to be the comma before the qualification, which thus won’t exist. This…
