In Part 1 we briefly went through the theory and history of innovation on employment. Then we covered two aspects that affect Bermuda: the pace of change and the occupational risk mix. Today we will l...
“If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand” — Confucius
The world is changing. The very essence of work is changing. As Bermuda’s job market continues to stagn...
A flurry of statistics has hit the wires over the last month. The data dump comes in the middle of summer when most would rather be hitting the beach and not the keyboard for inputting data into sprea...
Trees don’t grow to the sky. After surging over 150 per cent over the past year, the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index forest has been cut down. The recent breathtaking destruction of capital se...
I probably don’t need to tell you that Greece has a debt problem. Actually, it’s better to call it a crisis. It now faces two very large and imminent debt payments: 2 billion euros due to the Internat...
Let’s make something clear, local inflation doesn’t help anyone without pricing power — it lowers living standards by reducing purchasing power. It also can act as a disincentive for business investme...
For many, the title might remind you of the Greek alphabet. For those in the investment industry it denotes factors for returns.
Professionals in my industry are obsessed with measuring everything. In...
The unicorn, of course, is the legendary animal rarely seen and difficult to capture. Unicorns are not just part of mythology anymore, however. In fact they are more common than ever. The unicorns I’m...
You might not know this but the North Stars won the Bermuda Ball Hockey championship a week ago. A team that may not have ranked first place upon reviewing the statistics and one that battled all year...
As a kid I read a few DC comics that were set in the Bizarro world of “htraE” (or “Earth” spelt backwards). It was a world where everything is essentially inverted or the opposite of expectations. In ...
