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Charity

Blain’s Charity Walk Special – Meon Walk for WWTW!

Dear Morning Porridge Reader Walking With The Wounded Charity Appeal – Blain’s Butser to Exton Yomp! 28th…

Bill Blain
November 30, 2020

Charity Financial Crisis Rant

Blain’s Morning Porridge, 26 Nov 2020 – The GFC 2007-2031

Blain’s Morning Porridge, 26 Nov 2020 – The GFC 2007-2031 “Just when you thought it was safe to get back…

Bill Blain
November 26, 2020

Tech sector’s tectonic plates keep shifting
July 27, 2021
Yesterday’s events across Tech served to remind us it’s a fluid sector where what we believe one day may be false the next, but deep down there is bedrock. Crypto currencies saw a last-chance bubble pop, while Tesla genuinely surprised me by producing solid results – which don’t for one moment change my perspective its fatally overvalued. Meanwhile, the latest …Read More »
Be very suspicious of banks declaring diversity goals
July 26, 2021
Don’t be fooled by thin summer markets – the world has changed, markets no longer take August off. Yet, finance changes slowly - for all the talk about diversity it’s taking generations to change the mindset and sense of entitlement that underlies markets. Maybe a good shock will be no-bad-thing – but banks making statements about their diversity ambitions should …Read More »
To predict Europe’s future read some Japanese history..
July 23, 2021
The ECB has tweaked the words and now has low interest rates forever, and a new mandate to “tolerate” higher inflation. What will it achieve? To answer look at the failed 30 year experiment in Japan and the multiple parallels. The outlook for Europe as a global economic and innovative powerhouse looks shaky.Read More »
Markets are ignoring the new inflation reality
July 22, 2021
Markets have entirely recovered after their wobble earlier this week, but it’s based on a simple belief: central banks will stand behind markets. Investors are increasingly convinced inflation threats are irrelevant – and they are wrong to do so. Inflation risks are growing from immediate climate change, the costs of rising environmental instability and inflation leaching out of financial assets …Read More »
An Open Letter to Lutz Schueler, CEO of Virgin Media: Congratulations on your success in cutting out customers!
July 21, 2021
An open letter congratulating the CEO of Virgin Media, Lutz Schueler for perfecting the art of completely ignoring customers.Read More »