Appeared in Business in Vancouver – February 25, 2014 Did the Winter Olympics in Sochi give Russia a big bang for the ruble? Close-mouthed time will eventually tell if the stunning US$50 billion investment in the Sochi Games bought enough tourism and worldwide positive PR to justify the cost. Put 10 number crunchers in the…
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The modern way to dodge bad budgeting’s day of reckoning: Die
Appeared in Business in Vancouver – Sept 10, 2013 Having spent a lifetime as a human fungus living off the avails of news, I’m annoyed by most alleged news these days because it sails under false pretences: It’s rarely new. Consider the increasingly staccato “news” warning that most people are in deep doo-doo debt. That…