by Andrew White | August 8, 2011 | Comments Off
I arrived back from vacation last week and while away I caught up on some reading. My favorite non-fiction was Empire of the Clouds: When Britain’s Aircraft Ruled the World, by James Hamilton-Paterson. Bach in the 40’s Britain had a lead, pretty much, in aircraft design and development. But the seeds of destruction, partly political [...]
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by Andrew White | December 16, 2010 | Comments Off
I am just wrapping up a note on “Do Organizations with ERP “need” MDM?” We take many inquiries from users with large packaged application suites (some called ERP) and many such users are struggling with the MDM question. Interestingly, thought the question is simple, it turns out the answer is not as simple. It turns [...]
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by Andrew White | October 11, 2010 | Comments Off
I spotted a couple of news worthy items in the last few days, both on war. One concerned the First World War, the other, the potential for currency wars. October 3rd, 2010, was the official “end” to WWI. The UK’s Telegraph reported that the final reparations payment was to be made on Sunday. This would [...]
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by Andrew White | September 2, 2010 | 3 Comments
As I waited for my plane to Detroit day before yesterday I was browsing my CNBC news reader on my iPhone. I spotted an article I found very interested: Crisis Panel Chair: Politics May Have Doomed Lehman. The chair of another inquiry into the financial crises, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Phil Angelides, has concluded [...]
by Andrew White | August 23, 2010 | Comments Off
I saw an interesting article in today’s print edition of the FT. The headline was, “Why the nee GM is just a hedge fund in disguise”. The author, Tony Jackson, highlights how the recent talk of an IPO drew out estimates of a valuation for GM of about $60bn. However, GM’s pension fund, the largest [...]
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Category: Economy Tags: Auto Industry, Economy
by Andrew White | May 11, 2010 | Comments Off
Daily Telegraph reports today on possible impact on UK for it spurning a request for pan-European assistance for “bail-out fund”. Given the degree of dependancy between UK and Europe, this won’t last. Though no one can actualy afford to pay to support the bail-out, the UK will have to follow and sign up. I read on CNBC [...]
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by Andrew White | April 27, 2010 | 2 Comments
You might think this was a headline related to the upcoming World Cup. You know, of course, that the World Cup is the world’s largest sporting event and that it’s a soccer event. But, the headline is not about this. I was reading last week’s print edition of the Economist, April 17th, and there was [...]
by Andrew White | February 16, 2010 | Comments Off
Economist, print edition, January 23rd – 29th 2010: Railways and Slime Mold: A life of slime. Research has shown that for a given set of constraints (nodes, as in a network of locations, and a need to travel between nodes), slime mold seems to develop a very efficient structure. The testing applied slime mold to [...]
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by Andrew White | January 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
Though the markets don’t like it, President Obama made a good move today, in my view, with a plan to limit the exposure of our money to risks banks take. The Glass-Steagell act was put in place in 1933 to help protect depositor money from being used by banks in highly risky market-based activities. The [...]
by Andrew White | December 7, 2009 | Comments Off
In “New rules on liquidity could do more harm than good”, FT print edition, December 3rd, 2009, Jose Maria Brandao de Brito does a nice job of explaining the stress being sustained by governments that insist that banks need to increase their lending, and at the same time, financial regulators asking that banks preserve a [...]
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