Nightmare on Threadneedle Street
The UK economy is set to shrink by 4.5% in this year, the biggest fall in a single year since 1945, according to an influential think-tank. The downbeat forecast is more pessimistic than the consensus view, and considerably worse than the 3.5% fall predicted by the government. The Ernst & Young Item Club also warned that hopes [...]
Les Armitage: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-18
Wanted. Nurses; Support Staff and Care staff. Merseyside;Lancashire; Gtr Manchester; Wirral. Top pay. http://247professionalhealth.co.uk # Stunned by business progress in a recession. Bigger offices; more staff. £18,000 a week 7th month. http://247professionalhealth.co.uk. # Half of women + third of men >65 will need care. Age >85 doubles over the next 20 years. 4 people earn [...]
Windows 7 flies
The latest version of Microsoft’s flagship operating system, Windows 7, is available for pre-order in the UK. Amazon said that sales of Windows 7 in the first eight hours it was available outstripped those of Windows Vista’s entire 17 week pre-order period. The home version of the operating system costs around £50, while the professional version [...]
The UK property crash secret – or is it?
The data used to create the graph is publicly and freely available from the Nationwide Building Society. It’s a graph that is very valuable to timing. Let us see how we can use this to our advantage. The Last Crash: 1989 – 1996 It took 7 years for the crash to bottom out from point [...]
Les Armitage: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-11
@LockSmart Hi there. Didn't know this was an adverting channel. What on earth are we adverting a lock for? in reply to LockSmart # Hopefully the pundits denying the contiuance of the credit crunch are right. Wonderful. # 2030 tonight the relatives arrive from north of the border. Most of my Guiness goes and Soave. [...]
Contributors to GDP
Franchises are the single greatest contributors to the UK GDP. Did you know that? Look around, the vast majority of businesses are franchises.
Google -v- Windows = wonderful
Google is developing an operating system for personal computers, in a direct challenge to market leader Microsoft and its Windows system. What wonderful news. I for one am so tired of Microsoft and the Vista/XP operating system. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
