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Europe’s sinking economy
Europe's GDP numbers have just been released today and they are miserable. They show the Netherlands and France in recession along with the rest of the periphery. And even outside the euro zone, we got some pretty dire numbers out of the…
Has house price deflation begun in Canada?
Yesterday, the Teranet-National Bank National Composite House Price Index for Canada was released. It showed that 12-month home price inflation in Canada was down to 2.0%, the lowest level since November 2009. And given the huge amount of…
Portugal’s Japanese Problem
In a number of posts recently I have highlighted the impact of declining workforces on economic growth and the way the policies pursued to address the Euro debt crisis are having the impact of accelerating the movement of young people away…
Feedback Loops
We speak of the case in which positive shocks are self-reinforcing, as a virtuous circle, and the case in which negative shocks are self-reinforcing as a vicious circle, but the important point is that these processes are part of the same…
The real experiment that is being carried out in Japan
There is an experiment being conducted in Japan, but the experiment isn’t Abenomics (which I suspect won’t work, and could end very badly). No, the experiment is about learning to grow old with dignity, not as individuals, but as societies.
Android is killing iOS with nearly 75% share in Q1 2013
Gartner's latest market share results are in and they show Google's Android operating system gaining significant market share in Q1 2013 to nearly 75%. That is a jump of almost 20% in just one year.
Some more thoughts on mobile-based computing
The mobile emphasis is insidious because I almost don't notice that mobile is an angle n nearly every story I see. And when I write mobile, I don't mean smartphones - or 'handheld computers - as Newt Gingrich calls them in the hilarious…