source Shops shutter as Covid continues Shops shutter as Covid continues In the third quarter of 2020, the overall GB vacancy rate increased to 13.2%, from 12.4% in Q2. This was the ninth consecutive quarter of increasing vacancy rates, from Q2 2018. All locations saw an increase in vacancies in Q3, with Shopping Centre vacancies […]
source Let’s face it: Most people are completely unprepared. They’re oblivious to facts. Store shelves will empty in 72 hours after a crisis hits, if you’re lucky. Many cases it will be upended before closing time. So the answer is quite obvious: Be prepared. That has different meanings to different people. But there are basics […]
source In any country, in any city, you will find inequality. Some areas are more obvious than others. Today, we are seeing a growing gap in between those who have it all, and those who have nothing. Prosperity is an essential component of a healthy economy. If people are feeling confident, they will save, spend, […]
source There is one very consistent trend that has been very loud in the media, lots of stimulus measures. We know that. But there’s an underlying, almost silent trend. Jobs going away and never coming back. We’re always told that the middle class will be better off, next year, next 5 years, 10 years and […]
source There are serious consequences for attempting to stop the business cycle from functioning. The system needs an Economic Detox and yet it’s just getting more of the [s]ame garbage fed to it, every single day. The problem is only compounded. The danger is only mounting. The desire to create a bigger bubble is not […]
source Today, we are encountering an unimaginable state. All previous attempts to fix the financial system have been very straightforward: Lower interest rates and print money. The government [would] simply fill in gaps wherever they could and eventually the recovery would be back to normal. Since the Financial Crisis, clearly that didn’t happen. In fact […]
source There have been considerable changes in 2020, just from a year ago. We have watched the markets fall and rise. Many have wondered what tomorrow will bring. More questions than answers. More uncertainty. More volatility. But one [thing] is for certain, our currency will lose value against real goods thanks to reckless policies, designed […]
source Today more than ever before we have more uncertainty, more danger, and more risk being taken. Governments have decided that they are going to intervene at record levels often helping out their friends, their colleagues, and the revolving door of business and government to ensure that their grip does not lighten up. Big changes […]
source Try asking 4 equals what? Instead of 2 + 2. For me, I always see everything in reverse. For daily tasks, it makes it a disadvantage, let me tell you. But for business, strategy, learning, it’s certainly interesting. I just wanted to share this and relate it to investments. Follow the herd, and you […]
source The stock market moves fast. With countless interventions taking place over the years, any period of slow growth or falling levels has always been met with more stimulus. This can come from the Fed and their many programs or from the government’s big taxpayer funded bottomless pockets. Either way, it creates ridiculous distortions that […]
