As we are at the fag end of 2025, it's that time when we look back at what has happened and remember the good, the bad and the Ugly of the last 12 months.
P - Peace Prize - You can imagine the massive toddler sulk Donald Trump went into when it was announced that he hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize, i imagine that bottom lip stuck out so far that Melania could have used it as a table but the tangerine tyrant must be wondering what he has to do next year in order to be rewarded for his peaceful intentions. Not enabling a genocide by Israel, bombing Iranian nuclear sites pre-emptively, sending in the military to snatch people off the streets in the US, pardoning 1,500 criminals who supported him, firing independent agency watchdogs, threatened numerous universities with sanctions, deporting immigrants accused of gang membership without due process and defying court orders, demanding the prosecution of the media, ignoring laws and deleting federal programs, threatening to make Canada and Greenland American states and not blaming Ukraine for somehow getting themselves invaded would help i guess.
Q - Qualifications - On the face of it the government’s Business Secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, and the Chancellor Rachel Reeves are the perfect people to hold the position because he was a Solicitor according to his CV and she was an Economist at the Halifax Bank of Scotland. It then emerged that his claim was a mistake and he was a 'trainee solicitor’ because actually he jacked it in after only 10 months and she wasn't an Economist at all but worked in the Retail Section at the Halifax and both blamed typo's on their CV's and were happy to correct the mistake, so that's okay then.
R - Rugby World Cup - I was at Twickenham when the English Ladies won the Rugby World Cup against Canada and cheered when the other 81,000 in the crowd did because I know nothing about Rugby, but we won so Hurrah!!! This followed our ladies winning the European Football Championship so not a bad summer for the English ladies sports team.
S - Space Ladies - When I saw the picture of Katy Perry holding up the daisy in the Blue Origin penis shaped space ship I thought that picture is going to be iconic and it was a great picture but once they were back on Earth 11 minutes later it all went very wrong. Insights from Perry included feeling 'super-connected to love' and 'Space is going to finally be glam' and 'We are going to put the ‘ass’ in astronaut.' Another one said she prepared for the flight to the edge of Space by skydiving in Dubai 'to test out my hair to make sure that it was OK' which must have mortified real scientist and astronaut's but still, great picture though.
T - Tariffs - The 3rd Fattest President once said that the most beautiful word in the dictionary to him is tariff but then he did say that other countries would pay them which turned out to be nonsense because it cost the American consumers so it's not a great business plan but he went ahead and sprinkled Tariffs around and rather than the trade deals he expected to come rolling in, everyone else said right up your Fatso and stuck their own tariffs on America and boycotted their exports which led him to losing his bottle and earning the Nickname TACO, or Trump Always Chicken Out. He did promise a $2,000 dividend to all Americans as Tariffs were bringing in so much money therefore making them pay higher prices for the essentials and then giving them something to make up for him making them pay higher prices for the essential things but then he withdrew that idea anyway so they just got stuck with the paying higher prices bit. Economic genius this guy remember.
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Q - qualifications
they lied about their skills - - sounds like every politician. hillary dodged bullets in bosnia... she is very dodgy... bill dodged hillary... he is very dodgy... biden slept...
so, what makes someone an "economist" at a company?
if a person does work related to "economics" but the job title doesn't include the word "economist" or "economic" are they an economist?
how about the other way? the job title has the word "economist" in it, maybe even the job description mention economics, but they don't do any economist related work, are they an economist?
i ask because i was the strategist for my employer which means and i worked with the c-suite and board, providing them with:
1. competitor analysis (per US Economic Espionage Act of 1996)
2. competitor and market scenarios (economics)
3. developed and facilitated scenarios and war game sessions
4. researched and authored industry futures reports (economics)
5. developed a strategic planning process
6. developed a "strategy early warning system"
7. established the corporate/enterprise annual economic assumptions
my job title was Enterprise Strategy Director. meanwhile, when i asked people in various parts of the company (like IT or HR) that had "strategy" in their job title for their "definition of strategy", they couldn't answer, or they gave examples. when i asked them the difference between an operational plan and a strategic plan the answers were gibberish.
so,
1.) what makes someone an economist?
2.) what makes someone an expert?
She said she was an 'economist' and then apologised and said it was a typo so whatever she did, it wasn't an 'economist' otherwise why say it was wrong?
An expert is someone who knows their job so well and has decades of experience so that journalists can go and ask them their opinion rather than just guess or the journalist arrogantly assuming they know the answer themselves.
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