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Global warming and you2 comments

Lance Wiggs wrote 2 months ago: Here’s  excellent graphic from FiveThirtyEight via Treehugger and via New Zealand’s The … more →

Tags: media

How to blog anonymously

Lance Wiggs wrote 3 months ago: As we progressively lose our freedoms on the internet, it was timely to have a read of some of the e … more →

Tags: Politics, Internet Business, Business, Blogging, Anonymous

The real estate market plunge5 comments

Lance Wiggs wrote 3 months ago: Alex Tarrant over at Interest.co.nz had a couple of, well, interesting posts on the housing market i … more →

Tags: Investing

Bad news for Cricket: Sponsor Standford is being investigated2 comments

Lance Wiggs wrote 4 months ago: Via the WSJ it appears that Stanford International is under investigation: Stanford International Ba … more →

Tags: Business

Lower the barriers to raise car ownership3 comments

Lance Wiggs wrote 4 months ago: New Zealand has the third highest car ownership per person in the world, the economist informs us. … more →

Tags: NZ Business, car ownership, Vehicles, trade barriers

Final Ferrit: The site idea and execution4 comments

Lance Wiggs wrote 5 months ago: Part two of  a four part take on the end of Ferrit. We started with Market Space, and business econo … more →

Tags: NZ Business, Internet Business, broadband, Telecom, Feritt

BHP Billiton SSM job loses - WA and NZ impact1 comment

Lance Wiggs wrote 5 months ago: Nickel prices are very low, and so there are some big cuts just announced for BHP Billiton Stainless … more →

Rio Tinto: Tiwai Point will be fine, but Kiwis will be affected

Lance Wiggs wrote 6 months ago: With 14,000 workers going from Rio Tinto, the folk at Tiwwai Point’s aluminium refinery are ap … more →

Tags: NZ Business, Business, Rio Tinto, Tiwai Point, Aluminum, Aluminium

A foreshadow of the World's geopolitical risk?

Lance Wiggs wrote 7 months ago: Take a look at the car (below) in this article. “You are looking at a nano-cosm of a foreshado … more →

Tags: Business

Are we in a deep hole that the entire world could fall into?

Lance Wiggs wrote 7 months ago: Jeff Garten, the Dean of Yale School of Management when I was there, and now a Professor of Internat … more →

Please don't bail out GM1 comment

Lance Wiggs wrote 7 months ago: I have to agree with Greg Saunders, posting at Tom Tomorrow on this: “When it comes to bailing … more →

Tags: Investing, Autos, Bailout, GM

We are living longer1 comment

Lance Wiggs wrote 7 months ago: It seems that we now have a longer life expectancy – 82.2 for women and 78 for men, up 1 and 1 … more →

Tags: NZ Business, Life, media

Building a Strategy for New Zealand - some starters7 comments

Lance Wiggs wrote 8 months ago: Here are a few starter strategy phrases. They should give some flavour of the sorts of things that c … more →

Tags: NZ Business, media, New Zealand Strategy

Building a Strategy for New Zealand - two approaches

Lance Wiggs wrote 8 months ago: Writing a strategy is relatively simple – anyone can do it. Of course there is a catch.. The h … more →

Tags: NZ Business, Business, media, New Zealand Strategy

Swan diving version two: We need a plan

Lance Wiggs wrote 8 months ago: Version two of the Skilling/Weldon document Swan Dive or Belly Flop is now released. The document re … more →

Tags: NZ Business, Business, media, NZX, Skilling, New Zealand Strategy

Invest now - but only in quality businesses1 comment

Lance Wiggs wrote 8 months ago: Linked in just raised US$76m from some strategic investors, while over in Western Australia Tanami G … more →

Tags: Internet Business, Investing, Valuation, AAPL

Three Rules of Life - and why not to break them1 comment

Lance Wiggs wrote 8 months ago: I have a few rules of life that have generally served me well: 1: Never drink anything that is on fi … more →

Tags: Life, media

Mia Farrow sleeps with only a rope. In Darfur.1 comment

Lance Wiggs wrote 11 months ago: Who knew? Turns out Mia Farrow has been travelling to Darfur, Chad and CAR for a while now. Here … more →

Tags: Life, media

Digicell - getting bigger and bigger by helping people4 comments

Lance Wiggs wrote 11 months ago: Digicell is cleaning up – earning dollars by targeting poor countries with their mobile phone … more →

Tags: Internet Business, Telecom


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