Google AdWords is a marvellous tool especially for businesses will low search engine optimisation (SEO). Obviously I have been working on ours for years now so we have huge SEO where on average we are adding approximately 50 pages per week to our http://www.rwm.com.au website which is then fed to the relevant search engines.

Gee 5.00 pm you are working back

Agree with you on Google. We use Google adwords advertising and since we started website traffic has gone up 20 x. Its takes a few months but we are now page 1 on Google and Yahoo and use to be page 1 on Bing, until their robot probably detected the Google Translator and dropped us to page 4. Deleted the translator now!!! Lets see what happens.

Google is very cost effective and it works. Google Analytics tells you everything about who is on the site, from where and how they get there, what they do and where they leave from.

Keep up the good work. Your report is the second best thing on Fridays, after 5pm of course!!!

I always look forward to your insightful, expansive and informative commentary, just a little note with reference to the inclusion that the Irish economy shrank by 8.5% in the March 09 quarter – that is an annualised rate and not a quarterly one, thus it fell by 8.5% over the past year up to the end March ’09 – this may not be clear to some readers. Love the site and keep up the good work.

“You may have green shoots, whatever you want to call them, you may have temporary relief, but you are still in a world that’s breaking,” Taleb said on “Squawk Box.”

Anything that’s fragile like the financial system will eventually crash, he said.

“We’re in the middle of a crash,” Taleb said. “So if I’m going to forecast something, it is that it’s going to get worse, not better.”

The government needs to deleverage debt and not try stimulus packages that will inflate assets, he said.

“What makes me very pessimistic in not seeing any leadership or awareness on parts of government on what has to be done, which is deleverage $40-to-$70 trillion,” Taleb said.

“The monkey on our back is debt,” he added.

As an example, Taleb said banks should not be sending demands for larger and larger sums from homeowner in arrears on their mortgage. Instead the bank should offer to lower the monthly payments in return for part-ownership of the property.

“People would be able to start from scratch on a healthy basis. You don’t want to wait for foreclosure,” he said.

The “recovery” everyone keeps talking about may in fact be the eye in the storm.