3 april 2013
With all the recent noise around looking at Finland’s future alternatives, I am surprised that nobody has come up with the challenge to create a Finnish contender to Google, Bing or Alibaba. I feel ho…
28 mars 2013
NICHOLAS ANDERSON: Den som lever ett hälsosamt och stimulerande liv kan ofta också ha bättre kontroll på sina utgifter. Inte alla kan göra de där bästa investeringarna: i vidareutbildning, eget hus el…
27 mars 2013
I travel a lot and hate sitting in hotel rooms with bad local TV channels. Now I have solved the problem so I can watch Swedish, British, French, Italian, German, Canadian, etc. channels when I want. …
10 mars 2013
In Sweden there is a continuing debate about repaying housing loans. The banks do not want people to repay their loans. They want to have them invest their cash in saving’s products like investment fu…
1 mars 2013
Two friends have both had a Groupon experience. They purchased a EUR 100 for a dinner for two at a Michelin restaurant in Helsinki for which they paid EUR 50. It looked like an offer you cannot refuse…
20 februari 2013
NICHOLAS ANDERSON: Jag är den första att beundra forna amerikanska framgångar och arbetsstyrkans flexibilitet, men har fått intrycket att den amerikanska drömmen tillhör det förgångna. Två veckors sem…
30 januari 2013
NICHOLAS ANDERSON: De flesta av oss jobbar mer än 40 timmar i veckan, så varför inte gå med på en längre arbetsvecka på 45 timmar? De som tjänar allra mest lider inte heller av att i solidaritetens n…
24 januari 2013
During my recent vacation in Florida I stayed in four boutique hotels. I had booked most of them through www.trivago.com which aggregates many of the hotel discount websites to give me the lowest poss…
29 december 2012
Banks are demanding higher margins and are making these demands against some “clients” in the courts. For the purposes of simplification for this short commentary, I took the 2011 figures of the Norde…