Category Archives: Money
Tron Legacy
I remember as a child walking out of the movie Tron and thinking "I love anything to do with the future". Movies like Tron, War Games and Star Wars were the seeding inspiration around my life as a product builder in financial markets and more recently in web applications.
What’s really interesting is how Apple is [...]
Systemic Monopolies
Systemic Monopolies are a problem I have long thought exists in our less than ideal form of capitalism.
We think of traditional monopolies as being about a business having some unique advantage or forming some sort of cartel to dominate a market. While most economies have mechanisms to prevent this they equally create what I call [...]
Government Guarantee is Not a Low Deposit Rate Certainty For Banks
Ironically, now that Federal Reserves are busy guaranteeing bank deposits they have created a whole new set of problems in the competition for capital.
It would be easy to jump to the conclusion that banks should borrow money at the same rate the government does if it’s now the same risk. It’s not that simple. Fussy [...]
The Short Selling Ban - Regulator Legal Liability?
Stop feeding the bears cry the Zookeepers!!!
When regulators ban short selling do they have a legal liability to the mum’s and dad’s, fund managers and traders who lose money from this almost instant change in regulated markets? I’d love to see what some of the big legal firms think on this.
(Update: Just read Sean’s Stubborn [...]
Unshapely iPhone plans
We are about to see the start of unshaped iPhone plan disasters reported in the Australia press and blogs over coming weeks.
Shaping is when your Telco service provider cuts down the speed of your internet connection on your mobile or computer device. It’s an alternative to paying high excess usage charges on a per [...]
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