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Back from a week without internet, a touch of surfing over a coffee just revealed a delightful article on how to make the credit crunch prefaced recession work for you on your personal spend.  It’s all about haggling [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/3377202/Haggle-your-way-to-a-bargain.html]

Those battling to prevent an obesity epidemic currently promote the virtues of having 5 portions of fruit and veg each and every day.  The results are self-evidently staggering for your overall health and Body Mass Index should you keep to just such a routine. Inspired by this dramatically positive impact,

I spend a fair amount of my time helping sales people make the most of their latest new product.  There’s no doubt that technological advances such as the immediacy of and permanent connection to email is contributing towards making us intolerant of patience. Where once it would be quite

I admit to being bowled over by the spooky accuracy of Kondratiev during an overwise painful series of economics lectures at Uni.  He’s the Russian who unearthed the reasoning behind patterns of boom and bust that his disciples consider hard-wired inside trade cycles.  You can read about him and

Here’s an unpleasant retail experience from a surprisingly mild Autumnal day in central London.  Heading back to my desk during the afternoon, I walked by a deli-patisserie that I often pass.  Combining the knowledge that I’ve only ever been an occasional customer with my desire to stop giving

As we canter worringly into a time when only instant solutions will do, I was pleasantly reminded of the power of persistence recently.  Developers of hydrogen fuel cells (ITM Power) took 6 years and 25,000 attempts before cracking the problem of a safe and simple zero-emission car power solution.

In a taxi the other night, the cabbie remarked that supposedly being in Meltdown Week Two seemed at odds with all the partying going on in London after school.  Pubs remained packed, restaurants still rammed.  ‘What credit crunch?’ was his refrain. He’ll know soon enough, I’m sure. Which

Credit crunch begets recession begets depression?  Hopefully not, but to watch rolling tv news channels, confusion becomes annoyance that they revel in such gloom and see negative growth as guaranteed prime time entertainment.  A client of mine was talking this morning about how absurd and wrong it was that people