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Contributed By: Mike Phipps Finance on

“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened”Michel de Montaigne This time of year, my habit is to publish a few observations regarding the year just passed. I usually intersperse these pithy remarks with some crystal ball gazing and a dose of scepticism for good measure. Not this year my friends. It’s now 25 years since we welcomed in the millennium and we now find ourselves at quarter time in the 21st century. What an opportune moment to look back at the events that have shaped us over this past two and a half decades. Given the scope of theRead More →

Contributed By: Mike Phipps Finance on

I guess I should start this month’s massive with a welcome to 2023. Doesn’t seem that long ago that we were stressing about the Y2K bug and now here we are, 23 years later. For those of you too young to remember, the bug was essentially a “the sky is falling” event predicated on an expectation that computers worldwide would be unable to cope with the year 2000 due to recognition software that only identified the last 2 numbers in a year. The fear was that 2000 and 1900 would be indistinguishable to computer systems and all hell would break loose. The global spend toRead More →

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