Inversion Covid-19 will drop real estate prices & halt the “Great Inversion”: darkened luxury towers, bought as investments by absentee owners, are monuments to a crisis of success. Inflows of knowledge workers, big firms & the global super-rich into cities (unlike past outflows from urban decay), led to unaffordable housing, inequality & segregated communities. Cheaper property…
Month: July 2020
Armageddon Will Covid-19 armageddon leave deserted city centres? NO. The past points to the future: cities actually expanded after previous plagues. Finance, media, entertainment & high-tech won’t move out, as clustering merchants, workers, customers, universities, banks & investors produces huge innovation & productivity advantages. Cities will continue to be where the action is. A serene…
Guess the Word and Contact Us for Prizes! Series 62 starts soon….. 1st letter of each Post Title (in a Series) spells a business word – spelt correctly or jumbled up. Previous answers: Series 61 spelt D-I-N-E-X-J (JINXED) Series 60 spelt T-R-I-C-K-Y-A-D-S (YARDSTICK) Series 59 spelt H-E-Y-P (HYPE) Series 58 spelt B-I-O-M-E-Z (ZOMBIE) Series 57 …
Jitters Business owners & leaders have Covid-19 jitters. But those who’ve made it this far have already shown they can manage both detail (cut costs, deal with suppliers, engage clients, forecast cashflow) AND big picture (think ahead, reorganise staff, pivot operations). Finance & legal expertise helps firms lookout for whatever’s round the corner. More than…
Xenophobe The foreign & strange Covid-19 can turn us into xenophobes. Trade suspended. Borders closed. Families locked inside homes with a red cross daubed on their doors. Theatres & courts shut. Sport stopped. Streets empty. Bubonic plague was deadlier than Covid-19, but mark the parallels between London 1665 and 2020! Stranger danger, but life (and…
Elegant Boeing 747: Beautiful, elegant “Queen of the Skies” launched Feb 1969. The 1st jumbo jet. Her classic design exudes sleek style, confidence, advanced technology & dolphin-nose friendliness. Poetry in flight. Flagship of the world’s airlines. Postage stamp famous. Commercial flight icon. Hollywood status. Flown over 120bn km and 5.9bn passengers. Now retiring from service. …
Nose Spies have a nose to sniff out the most valuable asset, currently Covid-19 vaccine research. The land grab now is for intellectual property. State-backed hacking groups never really disappear. If a known espionage group is no longer evident, it just means they’ve become harder to detect. Guard the network perimeter, make users aware of…
Inveigle Criminals always find new ways to inveigle victims. In the age of the virtual heist, we know who has lost, but it’s not clear who has gained. If ransom Bitcoins are never moved or spent, they become more scarce & valuable. But if the hackers sell their Bitcoins, it floods the market & high…
Dine To dine out is a treat, stimulating mind &palate. Incorporating theatre, art, technology & good ingredients, a skilled chef creates alchemy that can’t be replicated at home. In normal times, Britons eat 1/3 of all meals outside the home. Dine out tonight, & let the good times roll Guessed the Word? …
Guess the Word and Contact Us for Prizes! Series 61 starts soon….. 1st letter of each Post Title (in a Series) spells a business word – spelt correctly or jumbled up. Previous answers: Series 60 spelt T-R-I-C-K-Y-A-D-S (YARDSTICK) Series 59 spelt H-E-Y-P (HYPE) Series 58 spelt B-I-O-M-E-Z (ZOMBIE) Series 57 spelt R-O-U-G-H-F-L-U (FURLOUGH) Series 56 …