by Anne Bannerman | Oct 21, 2021
I’m running my computer and router on a generator because the power is off. What the hell is going on? For 20-years, since Bill “blow-me” Clinton, campaigned to get China into the WTO, what have we seen; Our wealth and jobs sent to China, Commodity yielding land sold...
by Anne Bannerman | Oct 19, 2021
For many years, since I moved to Portugal, I have learned to keep my work and my private relationships much more separate than I once did. For most of my life on the front line of the business, colleagues and customers were the people with whom I spent most of my...
by Anne Bannerman | Oct 14, 2021
The great thing about internet searching is the algorithms that keep presenting you with the content it thinks you will like. I was searching searching “major economic downturns” and “declines of empires”, and was presented with links to some new YouTube videos from...
by Anne Bannerman | Oct 5, 2021
Summer is over, it is time to look at the bright new future ahead. Having been wheeled out of my nursing home and placed back in front of a computer, I am feeling decidedly young and sprightly, and in this first ‘proper’ edition of my ramblings, I will throw off my...
by Anne Bannerman | Sep 29, 2021
I’ve now been in the world of Capital Markets for almost 50 years, and the current environment is a million miles from the one I entered back in the 1970s. Investing and speculation was very much an arena for the well-heeled, and well educated. Few people owned...
