Who makes money from you?
February 10, 2021 4:40 pmThe investing app Robinhood is getting blamed for the GameStop fiasco. Its CEO is being called in to testify in... View Article
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For cheaper and lovelier cities, we need more specific planning rules
February 10, 2021 5:35 amLast week, I wrote about our frustrating inability to build new places that are as nice as old ones. It’s... View Article
Small-scale electricity sales are coming, but real-time pricing will be the true transformer
February 9, 2021 5:51 amThe three-week window for members of the public to give their opinion on the proposed micro-generation support scheme, which will... View Article
Sliding doors, and the under-valued option to hasten slowly
February 8, 2021 4:30 amIn recent weeks, the peripheral world of financial options has charged centre stage. In the dramatic duel between chat-room traders... View Article
Andy Farrell: a perfectionist confronting his limitations
February 6, 2021 5:35 amAndy Farrell has never owned a pair of rose-tinted glasses. The Ireland head coach sees things in black and white... View Article
The issue is not how much Robert Watt will be paid. It is about how he will be paid
February 5, 2021 5:20 amFrom his base at Harvard University, Lucian Bebchuk has spent much of his career probing the vexed issue of executive... View Article
Jeff Bezos has been worse for traditional retail than Covid. And things will only get worse
February 4, 2021 4:40 amThere’s a consensus among many that hospitality, transport and other Covid-affected sectors will eventually recover from the shock of the... View Article
A conveyor belt of debt: is intercompany debt the new double Irish?
February 3, 2021 5:15 amFrom the inception of the European Commission’s state aid case against Apple seven years ago to the eventual demise of... View Article
Why can’t we have nice places?
February 2, 2021 5:50 amA great place is hard to describe, but you know it when you see it. It’s got that quality of... View Article
Tailgating, gyrating markets & mental models
February 1, 2021 5:05 amSince the advent of the modern market economy in the early 18th century, the pattern of vaulting boom followed by... View Article
