09th March 2006
Copyright 2006 John Piper
If you look at a chart of the NASDAQ 100 you will see how feeble the rally over the last few years has been compared to the decline that went before. But that is not the most important point. The most important point is that t...
02nd March 2006
Copyright 2006 John Piper
The influence of the web is far-reaching and ever growing. It is changing the way we think and the way we do things. Never more so than in how we shop. Every day billions of dollars changes hands as people buy what they want o...
24th February 2006
Copyright 2006 John Piper
Man's greatest enemy cannot be seen, it cannot be heard, and it is so small that billions, yes billions, will fit onto the head of a pin. As you read this, the enemy is massing for an attack. Many billions, many trillions of t...
14th February 2006
Copyright 2006 John Piper
I have now had four books published and this is my story.
I had never actually planned to write a book but I had been trading stock markets for many years and in 1998 was approached by the Financial Times Pitman Publishing ...
13th February 2006
Copyright 2006 John Piper
There has been much written about the threat of a bird flu pandemic. Much of it is either alarmist or inaccurate. However the truth is not a great deal more digestible.
First I will examine the facts as they stand. The viru...
08th February 2006
Copyright 2006 John Piper
In life we often set ourselves tasks. Many tasks we deal with quickly and simply. We have no real problem going to the shops, meeting friends for a drink, doing the laundry, or making the bed. Other tasks can prove impossible ...