The End of Wall Street’s Boom

The Spiral Path has linked to Michael Lewis on several occasions. In this piece, Lewis gives his take on what went wrong on Wall Street. In the introduction he reminds us of his three years at Salomon Brothers: To this day, the willingness of a Wall Street investment...

Australia’s worst ever natural disaster

I have to pause for thought to remember the events of the last few days around me. As I sat in air-conditioned comfort last Saturday, Australia suffered its worst ever natural disaster with at least 170 people having lost their lives and the towns of Marrysville and...

Now is the time to innovate

It’s pretty scary reading the papers and listening to the news these days. We are all left wondering how this current downturn will play itself out. Unfortunately I don’t have a crystal ball and make no claim to any ability to predict the future. I...

Changes at The Spiral Path

Big changes are happening at The Spiral Path. I have moved the blog to a much more robust server. Some of you have reported some problems with links to the site. That should pretty much be a thing of the past. The elves are still working away at tweaking everything...

Starting Over

For the last twelve months at least The Spiral Path has gone the way of many blogs. I started out enthusiastically, but then other things overtook me. For one thing I noticed I was spending a lot of time blogging and not enough time earning money. Well I am going to...

Feedback on this blog

Due to an overwhelming amount of comment spam, I have changed the restrictions on commenting. If you do want to comment you will find you now have to log in via Typekey. It only takes a moment to get a Typekey account and you can use the same account for any blog...