Okay, that headline would have worked better if this post was about the Express, but whattayagonnado? You have to work with the tools you have. The Daily Mail has opened a new front in the war against a business rival by attacking an author of several best selling why-oh-why diatribes about modern Britain, who has been described as 'A dazzling hero of political incorrectness.' Nope, the paper

Here are some basic facts about market based capitalism. 1) You can not sell product X for £50 when someone else is selling it for £10. 2) You can not ask to be paid £10 for making product X when someone else will do it for £1. The whole point of markets is that they find a level through something called supply and demand. When you have a national based economy, this is fin...

It’s not easy feeling sorry for Lloyd Blankfein but I do here: Lloyd Blankfein has admitted that he believes Goldman Sachs has no moral obligation to tell clients it is betting against a product it is asking them to buy. The very act of selling something to someone is a bet against that product. If I were convinced

As some regular readers will know, your humble Devil is working on a product in his day-job. Said product is not a particularly original product (it's a content management system, if you must know) but the way in which it operates (and particularly the user interface) is, I think, something rather special. I have been working with one of our developers on this project, partly because he knows code...

By Professor Nick Bosanquet The recession is a product crunch – it confirms and intensifies the end of a twenty year product cycle. In the past decade a number of US icons have seen a fall in shareholder value. Microsoft,...

Whether product placement should be allowed in TV shows or not. Hmm, difficult question. …ministers are consulting on whether to implement part of a European directive, which would allow product placement in the UK from as early as 2010. Under the proposals advertisers would be able to pay to have products

The Labour Party and the Unions have decided that the latest "evil" are speculators who make "money out of other people's misery" by short-selling stock. For those who don't know short selling involves selling stock you don't own, in order to buy it back at a later date. By this mechanism it is possible to profit from a falling price. This can have the effect of creating a self-sustaining wave of ...

Short-selling is like bank robbery, the normally-sensible Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, told an audience on Wednesday. And yesterday, his colleague, Dr Rowan Williams, showed his hostility to short-selling in a Spectator article that, oddly, managed to name check Marx but not God. Archbishops of York and Canterbury both say short-selling is wrong They are mistaken. Short-selling i...

If a major corporation in the defense industry makes their case for their product, we are interested. I don't want to see my tax money spent on a company that won't stand up for their product. Say what you want about Lockheed Martin, but we give them huge props here for one reason, Fred Moosally and several others from Lockheed Martin put themselves out there and sell their product to the American...

“I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity” Former Prime Minister Edward Heath