Facebook’s flotation on the Nasdaq stock exchange led to a surge in people rushing out to buy the 400 million public shares that were made publicly available on Friday. Although I’m certainly no business expert, I’m struggling to know exactly where the value is for those who have invested. Whereas the success of technology companies such… Continue reading >

At the end of a couple of weeks when there has been pressure on the Government to intervene in the row surrounding bonuses owed to senior figures at Royal Bank of Scotland, and also seen former chief executive Fred Goodwin stripped of his knighthood, bankers’ bonuses is once again dominating headlines. Goodwin was honoured for… Continue reading >

The recent news that the government has scrapped a news NHS IT system has unsurprisingly caused a lot of anger. Not anger caused as a result of abandoning a project which has been doomed to fail for some time, but anger at the amount of money thrown away on the scheme already. Of the £12bn… Continue reading >

So British Gas have announced further rises to their energy prices. The most pleasing aspect was that it made so much news coverage on the radio, that I was actually able to know about these rises in advance. Without such coverage on BBC’s finest, one wonders whether customers of British Gas would be told at… Continue reading >

The Apprentice has thrown up very few surprises so far, but as the process moves into its final weeks, it is at least becoming more interesting. Last night’s episode saw the candidates head out to Paris, hoping to make sales of some supposedly classic British products. Sure, the products in question may not have currently… Continue reading >