Tuesday, 17 November 2009

I'm forever blowing bubbles...

..yes, you recognise the signature tune of Beb Bernanke at the FED and Mervyn King at the Bank of England, even Angela Merkel has it playing in the background now.

With the printing presses in full flow turning out banknotes like confetti we here, with our little band of Interim Managers, watch as the bubbles inflate, housing to the left, shares to the right.

We just sit tight and wait for the next big pop, when we'll be rushed in to help out as businesses run out of cash and customers. This one could be the biggest catastrophe since the Flood!

Not long now, I can already see some Interims fastening their seat belts and reaching under their seats for the life jacket, crash number 2 is on it's way.

Monday, 9 November 2009

Climate Change Summit condemned by Interim Manager

A focus group of average UK citizens concluded that the forthcoming climate change summit in Copenhagen will fail because:

1. the climate change models predicting global warming are crude and flawed - so the science is weak - although they agreed that the probability that CO2 is causing catastrophic climate change is high

2. the 'selfish' gene in human nature will obviate a global consensus on appropriate action

3. the western economic system free market growth model based on cheap energy through burning carbon is totally incompatible with a low carbon future - but is unlikely to be changed because of vested interests.

4. any proposed solution involving carbon trading will fail because the market will be skewed and impossible to police

An Interim Management expert on climate change agreed with these conclusions.

Thursday, 5 November 2009

It's all bubbling along nicely again ......

..in the economic stock pot and as the heat has been turned up ie the printing presses have rolled and turned out billions of bank notes which have been metaphorically burnt, the heat created has made our stock start to bubble - again. Hey it's just like 2006...let's all party.

But wait, what's in our giant stock pot?

House prices, stock market prices, gold bars, barrels of oil, cash for clunkers new car sale, bankers bonuses..yes they're all there bubbling along nicely helped by those top chefs in the kitchens of the central banks and their political masters.

Will the pot boil over again and house prices, car sales, market prices spill down the cooker and be back on the floor soon- of course they will.

Standy by Interim Managers you're going to be needed to clean up the mess.