Gloom or Boom in 2010?

After sending out an email to the world wishing everone a happy new year (you can see its contents in the post immediately preceding this one) I got a mild reproof from a couple of folk who thought me unnecessarily downbeat. (By my Eeyore-ish standards I thought I was being positively Panglossian.) My reprovers point was that there are real signs of optimism out there and that we should not talk it all down. I agree! There’s still money to be made even if the politicos are dragging our economy to the knackers yard. Smart business people understand that and their courage and audacity will be rewarded. But there is a point where one has to acknowledge the bigger picture. Our superb columnist Tim Price, who writes on investment for Business First, understands the deep fabric of the world economy and his thoughts thereon do not make easy reading. But read them anyway: http://tiny.cc/g8wCe

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