If you can avoid don’t let people rob you
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad moves back to Sweden after 40 years in SwitzerlandIkea founder Ingvar Kamprad is to return home to Sweden, 40 years after leaving the country to escape…
Small is not so beautiful
China’s big cities don’t have a great reputation these days: housing prices are soaring, traffic is choking, pollution is worsening. Small cities are certainly quieter, but this has worked against…
USD looks cheap
Source: BLS and SLJ Macro Partners. (1) Compensation adjusted for employment taxes and government subsidies to estimate the actual cost to employers
There is hope after all
What the BLS data tells us is that even in a rapidly automating world, we can't automate empathy.Last week, when the BLS reported that the U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs…
Deflation is the danger now
This wonderful graph from Gave kal says it allSince WWII we have been used to some growth in the world. Now things are stalling a bit, in the Developed world…
Don’t praise often and generally
A person who grows up getting too frequent rewards will not have persistence, because they’ll quit when the rewards disappearDr.Robert Cloninger, Washington UniversityA lot of research calls serious doubts about…
Throwing in the towel for the first time!
Saturday i had to quit a race for the first time.It was the EOX 240 Mountain Bike Ultra marathon.Last year i did 3rdThis year at Km 180, after 8 hours…
Information is worthless unless…
If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to), your days are probably numbered. Ask a travel…