Kodak has joined the growing list of companies with spiking stock prices and is perhaps the most surprising of all. What these companies share is a good story, not a great business. In this episode, Boaz Shoshan, Kit Winder and…
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Huawei is just the beginning
With Boaz Shoshan otherwise occupied, Southbank’s tech expert Sam Volkering and macro-strategist Nickolai Hubble talked about the news this week. UK GDP plunged by a quarter, before bouncing back less than expected. But what does that really mean? Will gold’s…
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Back to the 70s, and not in a good way
Presumably you are older now than you were in the 70s… Well, in today’s podcast, we explore what a return to inflation would mean – whether its effects on your life would differ to the last bout Britain went through….
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The very model of a modern major mismeasurement
This morning I discovered that there is no scientific evidence to support the two-metre distancing rule. Imagine my surprise. Those Germans wearing pool noodles on their heads at the café were idiots after all. But that’s not the flaw in…
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The age of gunbot diplomacy
About 16 years ago, I was hanging off a rock-climbing wall’s overhang, about 15 metres up in the air. And then my friend’s mobile phone fell out of my pocket… He’d given it to me for safe keeping, while he…
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The Internet of Things arrives in the Hubble household
We bought a baby monitor. It’s the sort of thing you never thought you’d use, until you needed it. The aim of the game was to allow us to make noise after baby bedtime at 7:30pm. Which can be a…
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Is this our most controversial tip ever?
What could be as controversial as President Donald Trump? That’s easy – 5G. And, apparently, our recommendation on how to profit from its rollout. My colleague Kit Winder over at UK Uncensored received some insightful feedback from a dedicated reader…
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Will President Trump pay China for Huawei’s 5G patents?
Do you remember when Japan was accused of stealing the West’s intellectual property, instead of developing its own? And then it was Taiwan. And then China. These nations grew rich on the back of Western R&D spending, which was then…
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The rooftop economy of your dreams
It’s like something out of Mary Poppins. Although she’s unlikely to approve of the idea… at first. Imagine if your rooftop, balcony or back-garden were truly special. A place where you only had to wish for something to appear, pay…
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Dear daughter of 2030, …
Dear Daughter of 2030, You were born on 24 January 2020. And today, on 8 June 2020, I’m going to describe the world you’ll live in, in ten years’ time. I hope you’ll read it then, on 8 June 2030….