Here’s a story which I think has some bearing on the debate around HS2, the planned new rail link between London and Birmingham. One of my tasks way back when as a still relatively young financial journalist was to follow the tragicomedy of Eurotunnel, the realisation of a 200-year-old dream to link Britain with the [...]
As anyone who has picked up a non-fiction book in the past five years knows, we have entered the “You May Be Surprised to Learn…” era.
Data analytic breakthroughs as well as fresh thinking in the realms of behavioral economics, neuroeconomics and other so-called decision-making sciences have taught us, for example, that most drug dealers [...]
Just how much in taxes does the IRS not collect, or at least not on schedule? Every few years, the IRS tries to come up with an estimate of this number, aka the “tax gap.” Its latest efforts, released earlier this month, indicate that for 2006, the net tax gap came to about $385 billion, [...]
The business analytics landscape is changing rapidly. The changes are being fueled by the surging interest in Big Data—unstructured data from social networking, smartphones, and sensors and meters of various sorts.
McKinsey addresses the growth of Big Data here. McKinsey’s gurus note that advancing technologies and their swift adoption are upending traditional business models. The CFO, [...]
Here’s a story which I think has some bearing on the debate around HS2, the planned new rail link between London and Birmingham. One of my tasks way back when as a still relatively young financial journalist was to follow the tragicomedy of Eurotunnel, the realisation of a 200-year-old dream to link Britain with the [...]
Fraudulent claims – mostly for hard-to-assess “whiplash” injuries – add about £40 a year to every honest driver’s motor insurance costs but Parliament will struggle to reduce this while some doctors, lawyers and police fail to act. Following MPs’ latest inquiry into the high and rising cost of what many still regard as a ‘victimless [...]
