One of our themes this year has been the progress achieved across so many measures of human life, health and prosperity, and that offers a justified cause for hope that…

In tackling a truly global challenge like climate change, we must maintain our belief in the power of engineering to make a better world. Because (…) our future will depend…

Earlier this year, a classic Matt cartoon from the Daily Telegraph had an English couple walk by a deranged-looking man holding up a sign saying “Everything may be OK”.  The…

“Economies are not delivering for most citizens because of weak competition, feeble productivity growth and tax loopholes.  The answer needs to start with acknowledgement of the fact that something has…

What is progress?  You might think that the question is so subjective and culturally relative as to be forever unanswerable.  In fact it’s one of the easier questions to answer. …

‘If we have bad times let them be like today’s’ – This Mexican saying reflects our thoughts as we look back on the first half of the year, with its…

“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”  This ‘law of technology’ keeps getting validated not because we do not understand how technology works…

The Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, the Woodstock of Capitalism, is the one ‘industry convention’ we attend. Berkshire’s business comprise almost all of US economic activity so it…

It is always dangerous to interpolate from personal experience to wider political, economic or social impacts, much less to investment views. Sometimes we must make an exception however… Earlier this…

O tempera! O mores!  As we write, two of the major political issues that have dominated politics, media, public discourse and our minds appear to be coming to their conclusions. In the US, the independent counsel’s…