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This Jesuman cash & carry in Alcala is protected by Saint Mary, the mother of Jesus. I know that creativity is encouraged in the tough grocery competition, but isn’t this company going a bit too far? The authorities in Madrid and Brussels might want to take a closer look here.
 
And once again, the Pope is [...]

We’re staying in a giant banana plantation, and in the mornings it is easy to wake up to the sound of workers cutting off tons and tons of green bananas which are then picked up by a huge lorry that goes straight to the harbour.
 
We’re allowed to “steal” yellow ones from one corner of the [...]

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Sensational pictures from the US reveal how sustainability can meet both speed and accuracy in one of the largest logistics projects ever. This is the way forward.

A Merry Christmas to everyone, and a Happy New Year!
 
Boris

As expected, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank have cut their key interest rates for the third time in less than two months this morning, and once again they’ve done it in the hope of boosting the economy by making credit cheaper – i.e. by encouraging companies to invest and seducing private [...]

I know that not all of my readers speak German, but for those who do, Der Spiegel (Germany’s most influential weekly magazine) is featuring a remarkable piece of journalism this week, under the headline Das Kapitalverbrechen (‘The Capital Crime’).
 
Der Spiegel sent eight journalists to different parts of the world for a number of weeks, to [...]

As promised last week, here’s my summary of key results from the G20 summit that took place in Washington this weekend. A historic meeting? Probably yes! At least the results were better than many people expected! (Action now needs to follow, of course.)
 

So what happened? – On Saturday, heads of government from the world’s leading [...]

Yesterday, the Bank of England gave a fairly dire outlook on the UK economy. The papers are full of it today, so here’s just a short summary of the Bank’s most important statements. I’ll then move on to present a couple of very interesting charts regarding forecasting accuracy, as well as three historic paintings and [...]

When a society changes rapidly, there are always winners and losers. Such rapid changes can be brought about by the implementation of new political and economic systems, as seen in Central & Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism in 1989/90. Or by sudden ups and downs in the business cycle, as seen in the [...]

Earlier this week, I wrote about how the European Central Bank and the Bank of England are expected to cut their interest rates very soon, in an attempt to stimulate economic growth. By making credit cheaper.
 
With cheaper credit available (from banks that will hopefully return to business as usual soon), the hope is that [...]