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A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis Part 1
Rolling Alpha posts about finance, economics, and sometimes stuff that is only quite loosely related. Follow me on Twitter @RollingAlpha, or like my page on Facebook at www.facebook.com/rollingalpha. Or both.
read moreThe Top 10 Posts of 2015 #localislekker
And just like that, it’s the end of another year of blog posts. 2015 has been madness: Je Suis Charlie came and went – and everyone got increasingly more paranoid about militant islamists. Russia quietly formed the Eurasian Economic Union. The Grexit drama, with all the referendums and threats and the almost-unending array of last […]
read moreWhat You Should Know About The Unemployment Rate
Rolling Alpha posts about finance, economics, and sometimes stuff that is only quite loosely related. Follow me on Twitter @RollingAlpha, or like my page on Facebook at www.facebook.com/rollingalpha. Or both.
read moreWhy Are People So Angry About Student Loans?
Rolling Alpha posts about finance, economics, and sometimes stuff that is only quite loosely related. Follow me on Twitter @RollingAlpha, or like my page on Facebook at www.facebook.com/rollingalpha. Or both.
read moreThe US-China Trade Relationship
Rolling Alpha posts about finance, economics, and sometimes stuff that is only quite loosely related. Follow me on Twitter @RollingAlpha, or like my page on Facebook at www.facebook.com/rollingalpha. Or both.
read moreThe Irrationality of Gifting
You know who I’ve realised is really good at giving gifts to people that already have everything? Ellen Degeneres. Last week, I glimpsed a clip of her giving Ugly Betty star America Ferrara a gift-wrapping station for Christmas. Genius*. *And ironic, because giving a gift that’s a gift-wrapping station for them to wrap gifts for other […]
read morePredictably Irrational: Bad at Probability
In the lead-up to Christmas, most of my readers move off to fun places that usually involve either beaches or snowboarding, alongside many new instagram pictures and much facebook envy. So I always feel like Christmas-week is a freebie for me, where I don’t have to be as current (unless something dramatic happens), and I can write […]
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LOOK AT ALL THESE UNICORNS
The world is filled with unicorns: Look at all those tech companies with their “over $1 billion” valuations. But like the bull with the fused horn buds, I don’t think that these are really as magical as they appear. Instead, when it comes to tech companies, my general feeling is that journalists tend to take a […]
read moreGrowth 2016
This is from the IMF: I was originally writing a post about unicorns. Unfortunately, this was interrupted by the El Capitan update on my macbook – followed by a re-indexing of the thirty seven thousand emails in my gmail inbox. Which, awkwardly, is only one of the many inboxes that APPARENTLY need to be re-indexed. My […]
read moreBlack Friday, and all the not-really-sales
In Black Friday sales since 2008, 7 people have died and 98 have been injured*. *check out blackfridaydeathcount.com Americans take holiday sales seriously. I mean – in the grand scheme of things, those are probably outlier/fluke statistics. But still. So here’s my question: what is a sale, exactly? The Convention This is the nebulous explanation […]
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