Expert view: Beware the so-called 'economic recovery'

Remember Alien, when the euphoric, exhausted crew escape in their spaceship, free from danger, and then suddenly the shot pans away and the alien is shown hanging on in mid-space? — well, I am getting a bit Sigourney Weaver about Gordon Brown.

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Expert view: Just think positive

Many businesspeople haven’t bothered to return from holiday since Pesach. Moses would have been proud of the exodus from the land of shrinking trade to, if not the “Promised” land, then certainly the “Land Where No Creditor Can Reach”. The sentiment being: “I might as well be on holiday and lose money as lose it at work.”

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Expert View: David Coffer

Many businesspeople haven’t bothered to return from holiday since Pesach. Moses would have been proud of the exodus from the land of shrinking trade to, if not the “Promised” land, then certainly the “Land Where No Creditor Can Reach”. The sentiment being: “I might as well be on holiday and lose money as lose it at work.”

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Expert View: Antidote to gloomy old mass media

I have decided to ignore all media hysteria on the economy. Recession is a very personal matter and so I have evolved the RGV/PRB index as the most accurate method of gauging public confidence and economic trends, this being structured from weekly data gleaned from about 30 friends, colleagues and family.

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Expert view: There might yet be a happy ending

Is this how Dorothy felt after Oz or the Knights after Camelot?

Where has our magical existence gone?

Now rudderless, we drift through the doldrums of the sea of commerce in a fog which gives no specific clue of direction or time. Like Phileas Fogg, we cut the wood from the hulk to keep the ship going to who knows where.

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Expert view: Bring back busyness

Most chickened out in July and ran away to the solace of a sunny swimming pool. The market had long since departed, probably for an even longer break. Hopes of returning to a warmer economic reception disappeared quicker than a tan. We have all loved the inflation-led, bullish "everything is going to be worth more tomorrow, so let's buy it" world that we lived in for the best part of two decades, and we're missing its charms like some holiday romance never to be revisited.

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