Technology

• 30th May 2019 Harry Hamburg

  The only number that counts when it comes to retirement

  There is around a 49% chance the stockmarket will drop in price tomorrow. But over the next ten years, there’s more than a 99% chance it will be up in price, at least according to Barron’s. That’s pretty good odds….

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• 28th May 2019 Harry Hamburg

  Humanity’s greatest achievement

  What has been humanity’s greatest achievement? Survival. When you boil it all down, survival is, and will continue to be, the most important thing ever achieved by humanity. All our other big achievements have merely been in pursuit of survival….

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• 22nd May 2019 Harry Hamburg

  Just how gullible are we?

  “Propaganda is making puppets of us. We are moved by hidden strings which the propagandist manipulates.” – Everett Dean Martin 1929 That quote comes from a debate between social psychologist Everett Dean Martin and the father or modern propaganda, Edward…

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• 21st May 2019 Harry Hamburg

  The internet space race is hotting up

  The internet space race already had three heavy-hitting contenders: SpaceX, OneWeb and Facebook. Now Amazon has entered the game. The space internet these companies are promising is very different to the inherent satellite we have today. Current satellite internet is…

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• 7th May 2019 Harry Hamburg

  Your letters

  You might have noticed over the last couple of weeks I’ve been asking you to write in more than usual. I’ve been interested to get your take on renewable energy, driverless cars and the future of the oil nations. Your…

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• 6th May 2019 Harry Hamburg

  Why aren’t UK cities swarming with scooter taxis?

  Crossing a road in other parts of the world is not like crossing a road in the UK. In the UK, you’d only step out into moving traffic if you had a death wish. In most of Asia, it’s the…

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• 8th April 2019 Harry Hamburg

  Who would win in a fight?

  Which sector wields more power, big banks or big tech? Big banks control the money. And money is power. But big tech controls information. And knowledge is power. In the past controlling money was the surest route to power. I’m…

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• 18th March 2019 Harry Hamburg

  Why our business is flawed

  Very soon a special announcement will be made. You’ll get an email with a subject line something like this: “Claim your all-access pass, worth £500” or “I’ve credited you membership account with £500”. A big fuss will be made. And rightly…

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• 15th March 2019 James Allen

  Killed by a rose

  The first patient to be treated with penicillin was an English policeman called Albert Alexander. The year was 1940. While pruning roses in the garden of his pretty Oxfordshire cottage Albert scratched his face on a thorn. A minor injury…

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• 14th March 2019 Harry Hamburg

  Analysis – The bank of Google

  Today, I’ve got a new video for you from Eoin Treacy. If you don’t know Eoin, he’s an investor and trader with nearly twenty years’ experience. The fund he manages was voted the #1 wealth protection fund in the US….

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