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Principles of Economics Translated
Confused by economics? Then you may enjoy this humorous video by Yoram Bauman, The Stand-Up Economist.
Forecasters are so trustworthy
This cartoon accompanied the front page article on The Australian today, 28th April 2009. Beautiful work Jon Kudelka!
Media “experts” finally held to account
“Even if nothing happened in the financial markets that day there would still be a 60 page edition of The Australian Financial Review published the next day.” That was the view shared by one of my first lecturers in financial planning back in 2000. (I wish I could remember which lecturer so I could give [...]
Ten Best Paid Politicians – Value for Money?
With all the kerfuffle by politicians over the remuneration of company executives I found it interesting to read this list of the ten best paid national leaders. Originally compiled by The Times and then re-crunched by The Australian to show their payper capita. (If the link does not work you may also read the article [...]
How the Global Financial Crisis Started
Courtesy of Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert. (The full strip may not show below, so click on the image to see the third pane of the strip.)
Thanksgiving Menu 2008
I just read this bit of wit in the December edition of Noel Whittaker’s newsletter. Whittaker didn’t quote the source, but I think the person is worthy of congratulations as it is quite clever. So if you know the origin please let me know. Appetizers Mélange Of Frozen Markets Tossed Assets With Government Guarantees Frisée [...]
Ord Minnett building crack advice teams
The state of Australian and International share markets has been so bad that stock broking firm Ord Minnett has formed teams to advise clients how to make money selling drugs like crack. Perhaps they have not read the excellent book “Freakonomics” By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner which explains that many drug dealers [...]
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