Philip Ammerman

I was sorry to read in the Financial Times that Hindenburg Research is closing shop. At a time where almost no mainstream financial media ha

A combined Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone! With the end of the formal work year I've been hit by a tremendous wave of...

It’s really clear across multiple sectors that we are between two capital cycles. Central banks are starting to reduce interests rates.

I've recently written a brief analysis of the Cake motorcycles. Cake was probably the leader in the European electric motorcycle market....

I stay in a lot of hotels each year. Some of these stays are planned; some occur by chance. Regardless of the country, one common factor...

When on vacation, you tend to see things more clearly. What I see very clearly is the tremendous stupidity of attention-seeking idiots...

The Financial Time has a brilliant Lunch with the FT interview with Timothy Snyder, the Yale historian whose "Making of Modern Ukraine"...

This post may sound a little bit naïve, but here it goes. I’m on vacation in Vienna: we arrived yesterday, walked around, slept, etc. and...

Martin Wolf has a typically thoughtful article in the Financial Times on the benefits of a land value tax (Sunday, 6 February 2023). In...

Yesterday (Saturday) was not a great day. Exhaustion caught up with me, as did the strain of having to make some major decisions. And...

Bloomberg Law sent samples of baby food distributed in the United States to chemical laboratories for testing. The results? Baby food in...

I'm surprised at the arrogance shown by Bloomberg’s Editors to call the Democratic Party “out of touch” in its 8 November editorial. ...

Like many others, I’ve been watching the UK Gov meltdown with astonishment. Part of this is a sourcing issue: 3 of 9 mainstream media I...

For some years now, I've been wondering if economic statistics reflect reality. At least, reality as experienced by business managers and...

Today President Putin announced a partial call-up of 300,000 reservists, and repeated his threat on the use of nuclear weapons. I have...

Matthew Karnitschnig published a logically absurd article in Politico on September 8th. Entitled “Putin's attack on democracy is working....

I have been reading obituaries marketing the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, who died yesterday at the age of 91. Let me begin this post by...

I’m sitting here at Costa Coffee on a Saturday morning, hard at work. The place is absolutely full of beautiful young people. Sometimes...

So … the nice lady asks me what I would like to drink. I answer “Bourbon, please.” Blank stare. “What is bourbon?” I scrambled to define...

Statista reporting on university leadership equality and diversity, as found in a report by the EOS Foundation. It makes for grim...