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  1. @Duckocide Andy, the feeling is mutual. Really interesting to continue conversations. Have a really great weekend.
  2. @SgtStretch Oh sorry if I offended you! You are actually a more prolific twitter than I am - been talking about futurist trends 18 months.
  3. Writing new book today on sustainable, green tech and $40 trillion of new business opportunities.
  4. rechord @patrickdixon I heard TFL decimalised their clocks, explains why "1 minute" on the departures board feels more like 100 seconds!
  5. @wwwpoet Insurers are mostly well protected from a future share crash, having survived the worst last year. Things looking up.
  6. @jonzomatthews Global economy boost is coming from the powerful engines of India, China, Brazil etc + $3trillion stim package.
  7. ECONOMISTS QUOTE: "If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion." George Bernard Shaw
  8. @jonzomatthews NEW OIL FINDS won't add output for 5-20 yrs. When oil price fell, investment stopped. Now demand > supplies.
  9. @wwwpoet Insurance always profitable business when risk priced enough to cover payouts + running costs + return on capital.
  10. @aweiser278 ANOTHER BUBBLE AND CRASH seems inevitable - interest rates near zero,asset prices rising fast,$3 trillion stimulus.
  11. @WarArkEntaprize Yes it is an interesting life - a great privilege to be able to work with so many different industries and organisations.
  12. @yBCsales Advice to small business startups? Big CUSTOMER FOCUS; get product RIGHT; tight control COSTS, LISTEN to advice.
  13. How fast can we go? "There is MORE TO LIFE than increasing its speed." Mahatma Ghandi
  14. SWISS TRAINS: timed to perfect nanosecond. Every culture has its own clock: UK - erratic, Germany - precise, Africa - later OK
  15. "Good leaders create a vision,articulate the vision,passionately own the vision and relentlessly drive it to completion. J Welch
  16. INSURANCE is community arrangement to share risk and pay out in trouble. Image often high-cost rip-off to enrich shareholders
  17. Brazil currency up 36% v US$ as foreign investors pour in. EXPECT:further $ falls as US investors buy back into global economy,
  18. OIL PRICES near $80: I predicted months ago wld stay above $60. As China, India, Brazil grow fast, EXPECT min $60pb.
  19. BANK PROFITS UP AGAIN: as I predicted - despite many who claimed era of profitable banking over. Shares up. Bonuses back.
  20. In Switzerland today lecturing to research directors pharma companies on future of health.