There is a very good article in the Financial Times today concerned with the panic over privatising the NHS. I added this comment on-line: ” I write this from my NHS hospital bed. There can be wonderful service from the NHS but it can also be very bad – waiting lists for surgery or cancer treatments are examples. I would hate to have to rely on the NHS solely for medical treatment as most people do. Over 30 years I have learned that the NHS is slow to reform and adopt new technology. It’s a bureaucracy and not run like a business with customers. The NHS still treats you in what they consider is best and most efficient for them. There is little response to customer demands or views. That is what needs changing with more financial incentives”.
It looks like I may be here some time but I expect they will keep me alive as they have done for the last 30 years (I am a kidney transplant patient). It does enable me to finish reading Barton Biggs book Hedge Hogging which I mentioned in a previous blog post. This is a really good book that everyone involved in the financial world should read. I’ll try to do a more expansive review at a later date as it’s not easy to use a laptop in bed. It’s not just relevant to hedge fund managers!
Glad to see the market is in soporific mode with no big movements in my holdings. Trading from your sick bed is never a good idea as treatments can affect your brain or your emotions.
Roger Lawson