14 juli 2015
Sitting here in one Italian Alta Pusteria valley between the towering Dolomite mountains, my wife and I have been following the Greek drama as it unfolds. I am unable to stop my pen from scribbling… A…
29 juni 2015
Greece is now a live experiment of what happens when an electronic banking system collapses. People cannot access their cash. They cannot make payments. Their credit cards stop working. Shops and gas…
25 juni 2015
When I travel I want to enjoy local events, products and culture. When I go to Vienna’s railway station or airport I can buy locally produced sandwiches that are not found anywhere else. In Munich and…
4 juni 2015
I have just spent a few days researching the annual reports of 6 Nordic banks to see how much money they have actually lent and to which customers. I have been doing this since 1970’s when I first too…
18 mars 2015
I spent 10 years running Kuntarahoitus Oy and learnt a great deal about the municipal sector. It is a fundamental part of Finland that manages the basic services rather well. Teachers, nurses, doctors…
7 februari 2015
A 30 year old Swedish coworker (in finance) in Stockholm bought a block of Apple shares in 2008 after selling his holdings of Nokia. Both investments enabled him to buy a nice apartment in Stockholm f…
19 januari 2015
Is this really a food price war between the monopolies? Of course not! They are just trying to stop Lidl’s march into their 80% market share. The announcement covers a tiny fraction of their 25 000 pr…
23 december 2014
Jag har hört många sabla ner Slush – mässan för uppstartsföretag – när de i själva verket borde sabla ner politikerna, Finlands näringsliv EK och fackförbunden. De flesta idéer på Slush kommer aldrig …
6 december 2014
Finland has the opportunity of a lifetime to take over Saarinen’s world class Railway Station Building and turn it into a Finnish “Guggenheim” a million times better than the US model. Why build anot…