What have Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Blondie, Shakira and Barry Manilow in common (other than being musicians of course)? They all recently sold the rights to their back catalogue or at least part of it for a tidy sum. Neil Young, for example, has sold a stake of 50% of his 1180 tracks for an […]
Beware of doxers!
Doxing, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, is ‘the action of finding or publishing private information about someone on the internet without their permission’, information which all too often then ends up for sale on the darknet. Many areas of our daily lives have been digitalised in recent years, and with this comes an increasing awareness […]
David against Goliath
It has been an interesting couple of weeks on the New York Stock Exchange, where an epic battle of David (as in the small investors on Robinhood and Reddit) versus Goliath (hedge funds and their billionaire owners) is unfolding. On one hand it is refreshing to see that private investors can unite against Wall Street’s […]
Shackled democracy – social media
After the events of January 6 in Washington and President Trump‘s half-hearted disavowal of the violence it was only a question of time until Twitter, Facebook and all the other social media sites would take action. And rightly so, although I will miss Ex-President Trump‘s tweets, not for their insightful nature but for their entertainment […]
Smart everything everywhere
Reading an article about the annual Consumer Electronics Show CES which takes place every January in Las Vegas, well, online this year, I got intrigued by the number of smart items which have invaded our daily lives. There are smart phones, smart cars, and even things such as smart dog flaps and smart toilets. No, […]
Bitcoin – one year on (from my last post)
You probably won’t remember my post about Bitcoin on 8 January 2020. I concluded with the statement made by John McAfee (yes, the John McAfee of the famous antivirus software) in 2017 that by the end of the year 2020 one Bitcoin would be worth 1 million Dollars. Well, it hasn’t happened and I am […]
Brexit: Not such a good deal after all
A Brexit deal was clinched at the last minute, but it turns out now that it is not all it was meant to be. And while prime minister Boris Johnson was congratulating himself and his government for this outstanding achievement (I am being sarcastic here!), he forgot to tell us about some of the minor […]
ESG investing is not all it’s made out to be – yet
ESG funds have done extremely well recently with, according to bloomberg.com, experiencing capital inflows of $45.7 billion in the first quarter of 2020 alone. Environmental, social, and governance investments clearly are all the rage these days, many of them having outperformed their traditional counterparts in recent years. Many ESG funds invest heavily in technology, but […]
The shackled democracy
It is amazing how things on the COVID-19 have changed.we all got used to social distancing and wearing face masks, meeting only in small groups add working from home. But some of the more recent restrictions imposed by western European governments could be quite worrying, weren’t it for the necessity of preventing do virus from […]
The grumpy older man 