The Human-Time Paradox
Hours and even days, weeks and months often seem to creep by at snail’s pace, yet years and decades always whizz by in the blink of an eye.
Solve that paradox in your own personal context and you have the foundation for a contented and thus satisfying life.
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Redeeming Imposter
This is my attempt to increase the momentum in support of the Uluru Statement From The Heart especially amongst us non-First Nations Australians. This past year I have opened my eyes and heart more than ever to the need for progress towards true reconciliation. As the Uluru Statement From The Heart website says, First Nations… Read more
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Legendary Investor Jeremy Grantham Calls End Of ‘Super Bubble’ in US Asset Markets
I know that I have let the economics and investing element of my blog lapse terribly – I admit that it is an aspect of the ‘Great Reset’ era’s affect on me, along with some personal issues, that have seen me deprioritise thinking and writing about ‘money’ to be less than other more pressing issues,… Read more
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The Great Reset: Inevitable, irreversible, deep-rooted in connection
The Great Reset is the era in human history that we entered (or which accelerated) in the COVID-19 pandemic where connection with ourselves, within society, and to the natural environment, and fairness, equity, inclusion and compassion superseded accumulation of material wealth and ‘winning’ as the primary aspiration within societies leading to more balanced and sustainable… Read more
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Vale The Legendary Virologist Jean-Robert (JR) Bonami
Yesterday Zhengli informed me of the death on August 8th of Jean-Robert JR Bonami, her PhD supervisor, and for a brief while my mentor. No longer active in the field and within that community, I will express my condolences here in the hope that those to whom it means something will one day see them.… Read more
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For The Sons Of Deeply Insecure Men
When I was an early teen I felt deeply insecure in my family. In many ways I felt like I was treated as foolish by them following the lead of my father. Perhaps it is normal that the youngest child is taken less seriously by the family, or perhaps that is a common perception of… Read more
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Australia’s Children Left Onboard Affair
My first cartoon attempt – “The Children Left Onboard Affair”… I wanted to include New Zealand with a ‘ring of steel’ around it and a rainbow, and Jacinda Ardern saying “see you in 8 weeks – good luck”… Seems strange, does it not, that in a major global catastrophe we are saying “sorry, children to… Read more
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On The Origins Of COVID-19: My full and unabashed thoughts
As I often seem to do, I will start this post off with an admission. Most of last year I was hyper alert to how my public comments and my emails to my former colleague and friend, Dr Shi Zhengli, the lead scientist of the laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology which is world-renowned… Read more
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Majority of Australian Women of Colour Don’t Feel Safe At Work
Only one-third of women of colour felt their identity was recognised and valued at work. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-26/australian-women-of-colour-unsafe-discrimination-work/100232188 Gained value from these words and ideas? Consider supporting my work at GoFundMe © Copyright Brett Edgerton 2021
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The Great Reset Era Theme: Investing in family and community connection
Excerpted from “Full Thoughts On Prof. Michael Sandel’s Meritocracy Discourse: Part 2“ Prof. Sandel [in “The Tyranny of Merit: What’s become of the common good”] makes almost no mention of the importance of family, which is an enormous pity as this is an obviously critical issue in social cohesion and feelings of attachment within society.… Read more
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The Great Reset Era Theme: The education revolution
Excerpted from “Full Thoughts On Prof. Michael Sandel’s Meritocracy Discourse: Part 2“ In “The Tyranny of Merit: What’s become of the common good” Prof. Michael Sandel, with his experience over four decades as a Harvard University lecturer, provides significant detail on his observation of the growth in competition for positions at universities perceived as being… Read more
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The Great Reset Era Theme: A global village based on ‘Quality Globalisation’
Excerpted from “Full Thoughts On Prof. Michael Sandel’s Meritocracy Discourse: Part 2“ Solidarity at the national level is preferable to having polarised societies, indeed, but the true challenges to a sustainable and thriving humanity depend on cohesion of the global community. That reality is increasingly understood in the battle against the climate crisis and it… Read more
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The Great Reset Observed In Real-Time By Former US Labor Department Chief Economist
The full interview is available on Bloomberg from 1:12:30 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2021-06-22/-bloomberg-surveillance-full-show-06-22-2021-video Gained value from these words and ideas? Consider supporting my work at GoFundMe © Copyright Brett Edgerton 2021
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Full Thoughts On Prof. Michael Sandel’s Meritocracy Discourse: Part 2
In the first part of this essay I expressed my support for Prof. Sandel’s views with some qualifications on what I believe are the most important factors in the polarised societies many developed nations are now experiencing. Specifically my view is that this polarity is due to the inequality itself more so than distrust of… Read more
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Humanity Needs Good People In Tough Jobs
Firstly an admission – I am bogged down in writing part 2 of my response to Sandel’s ‘meritocracy’ discourse because it encompasses three large areas which I had intended to write individual posts on and for which I had developed extensive notes. That highlights how important that response is to me, but it also means… Read more
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Spotting shaving cream froth on fluffy snow piled high in a long blizzard from 50 feet
I am well aware that the ‘Macro(economics)’ element of this blog has taken a backseat in my writing since COVID-19 broke and I have not updated my views on investment markets for almost a year. There are two main reasons for this. Firstly, these times are unprecedented – in fact I believe we have entered a… Read more
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How Farmers Lose Their Perspective
What was running through my father’s enraged mind that night I will never know — he is too emotionally repressed to ever be able to even acknowledge it happened let alone give me closure on what he was thinking as he was fully loading his revolver — but I have had to live my life… Read more
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Full Thoughts on Prof. Michael Sandel’s Meritocracy Discourse: Part 1
I have now finished reading “The Tyranny of Merit: What’s become of the common good?” by Prof. Michael Sandel which I purchased after watching his panel at the WEF Davos Agenda. It is brilliant and one of the best-written books that I have had the pleasure of reading. Firstly let me say that from my perspective… Read more
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My Fraught Journey To Women
Prologue It’s fitting that even the prologue I commence with an admission. Rarely for my posts, I sort advice on whether to publish this because it contains embarrassing, personal information that I felt that I would rather not make public if my confidants suggested that this article was unlikely to have any impact. I also… Read more
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Australia Must Pivot To COVID-19 ‘Normality’ Once All Residents Are Offered Vaccination
In February 2020 I was one of the first to speak publicly of the need for Australia to shut the borders and aim to eliminate what was then referred to as ‘the novel coronavirus’. In my first post on the topic published 3 February “Social Cohesion: The best vaccine against crises” I highlighted the unique… Read more
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Navin’s Beautiful Memoir For His Courageous Mother
To celebrate the 100th post on MacroEdgo I am honoured to publish for the first time the work of an extremely talented young man who is destined to make a real difference for humanity, my 12 year old son. This is a school assignment which was just too good to not be read by a… Read more
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The Great Reset: Humanity demands leaders walk while chewing gum in the 21st century
The criticism most often levelled at President Franklin D Roosevelt – President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945 – is that he did not tackle racism and inequality. Excuses are made that the Great Depression and then World War II were such serious issues that political capital and attention had… Read more
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For A Moment Consider That Meghan Might Actually ‘Complete’ Harry Not ‘Contaminate’ Him
There is a subtext to the story revolving around Prince Harry and Meghan Markle that you probably would not recognise if you are a part of the dominant majority in society. You might not even recognise it if you are a part of a suppressed minority, especially if new to it through migration. I recognise… Read more
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Racial Prejudice and Bias: A matter of degrees
Bias and prejudice is expressed in varying degrees across society, and that makes combatting it challenging as detection is often problematic even for those it is directed against. Why is it that a salesperson treated you with condescension? Why was your application to rent a home rejected even though you are an executive in a… Read more
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The Lie Of Reverse Racism
The lie of reverse racism is one of the chief tools of the racist to create division and draw people to their side. I realised this early when I first began to reflect on the racism which I learned from my upbringing in conservative northern Queensland. “Oh they receive so many hand-outs from the Government… Read more
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An Explanation of Black Lives Matter
To A Good Person Who Did Not Understand I have just had a conversation on social media with somebody who I have known since childhood, and who I know to be a lovely, and true and honest spirit. It was not just that conversation, however, that prompted me to publish my comments in full here.… Read more
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Nobody is Perfect: We men must keep trying
On the morning of Thursday 21 January 2021 in Australia I sat and watched transfixed on the television in awe as somebody spoke to and for all of humanity. That person described themself as “a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother” who now knew it is possible that they… Read more
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Racism and Political Correctness
It is time that I explicitly state my views on racism. The issue which I consider goes right to the heart of dealing with racism in Australia is political correctness, which is ironic because political correctness is perhaps the most often stated justification by racists for the need to express their beliefs. The racists’ argument… Read more
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The Great Reset: Building the bridge
What would you think if I sang out of tune?Would you stand up and walk out on me?Lend me your ears and I’ll sing you a songAnd I’ll try not to sing out of key Oh, I get by with a little help from my friendsMm, I get high with a little help from my… Read more
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The Great Reset: Momentum builds with the World Economic Forum agenda
I spent most of February and the first half of March 2020 banging away on my keyboard trying to wake up my fellow Australian residents to the risks of the coming COVID-19 pandemic so that through political self-interest elected politicians would enact policies necessary to protect those within the Australian borders and to help as… Read more
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The Great Reset: A letter to my Father and my ‘Sliding Doors’ self
Dear Dad It seems that lately we struggle to spend time together without quarreling. Neither of us are good at small talk, and the divergent path that I took in my life means that we no longer share much in common. Most importantly, we no longer see the world through similar frames of reference. I… Read more
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How Might Milton Friedman Respond To The COVID-19 Pandemic?
I have written extensively detailing my views on why conservatives are hell-bent on minimising introductions of stringent measures to retard the COVID-19 pandemic in their jurisdictions which would reduce preventable deaths. It boils down to their political power base being the business class elite, and their greatest fear is that The Great Reset will lead… Read more
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How I Re-made Myself After A Breakdown
I have 23 cousins on my father’s side, but when I was a young boy, Ernie stood out above all others. Ernie was my brother’s age, 8 years older than me, and he was a real farm boy. He was always with my Uncle Charlie on his frequent visits to help Dad out in our… Read more
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If After 30 Years of Unbroken Economic Growth Australia Can’t Afford To Protect It’s Most Vulnerable, Who Really Benefitted From That Economic Growth?
The COVID-19 pandemic has shone the most intense of spotlights on the weaknesses in our societies including: the lack of cohesion and increase in racism, inequality in opportunity leading to lower living standards which results in far greater impacts especially on exploited minorities and temporary workers, and inadequate care for the elderly in part due… Read more
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How to Look After “Our Own First”
I took part in a focus group for Global Citizen a few weeks back. I was thrilled to be asked to participate as it is an organisation with which I share so many values. My own mantra that I developed through MacroEdgo is “United Humanity” and my email signature is as follows: We have learned… Read more
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How Society Will Change If A COVID-19 Vaccine Is Elusive
I have expressed a reasonably supportive level of optimism towards the likelihood of the development of effective vaccines and/or treatments for COVID-19 since my first updates and report in early February. In my report in mid-February, however, when frustrated by how slow Governments and financial analysts were to recognise the challenges that we confronted, I… Read more
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The Great Reset: Teaching What We Left Behind
Have you ever had a “Ratatouille” moment? Like in the animated movie where the food critic is instantaneously transported to a deeply cherished childhood memory when stimulated by an extraordinary event, in that case the first mouthful of a dish that invoked his mother’s ratatouille? I have experienced it once in my life, and there… Read more
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Your Life: Something The Elites Have Always Been Prepared To Sacrifice For Their Ends
Although unknown by most who play it, Monopoly was invented as an education tool to demonstrate the pitfalls of wealth being concentrated amongst a few. It was designed to be a warning of the danger of ‘Monopoly’! The history of the western world’s most popular board game is fascinating, especially in how it mirrored reality… Read more
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The Great Reset
This is a post of hope. Of promise. Of potential within our grasp if we have the courage to reach for it. The commencement discusses markets because they give a verifiable account of the slow reaction to the threat that COVID-19 posed to humanity. The latter discussion opens up to encompass implications and aspirations for… Read more
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The Conundrum Humanity Faces: But Nobody Admits
In this essay I distil down to a common sense level the interplay of Global population growth and climate change to explain the reality of what has been the impact of delaying both our progress towards global equality and innovative responses to climate change. Just imagine for one moment that at the completion of World… Read more
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Social Cohesion:The Best Vaccine Against Crises
As survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp mark the 75th anniversary of their liberation by appealing for people to remember the perils of indifference, the Wuhan coronavirus is set to test multicultural cohesiveness in a way that has not been tested since World War II. The European Day for Remembrance of the Holocaust is 27th… Read more
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Introducing MacroEdgo
This site encompasses economic, investment, financial, business and managerial analysis and life philosophy. It is unapologetically challenging! If you do not take with a grain of salt some of what I say here then I have failed in my aim. I pride myself on being ahead of the curve and absolutely feel uncomfortable being a… Read more
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About
I am an ex-scientist and believe in full disclosure… so here is the full story… Check out my Curriculum Vitae for my career as a scientist. Check out my Investment History. Firstly, why the “Edgo” in “MacroEdgo”. I come from the small agricultural town of Innisfail in northern Queensland where my Great Grandparents were pioneers… Read more
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Let’s Talk Leadership
Obviously Morrison never had my vote by the time he reached the top job. Someone whose biggest claim on ‘leadership’ was ‘stopping the boats’ was never going to wash with me, and his performance as PM has only strengthened my disapproval of him especially through the pandemic (and worse, actually, as he is our first… Read more
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What’s That Got To Do With COVID?: Funny you should ask
Lately I have noticed something that I find strange and, well troubling, really. I have noticed in a lot of open spaces around the city people gathered in white clothing, some wearing war paint (like many First Nations people traditionally did) or even like Georgians in England. They seemed to be enacting strange rituals bursting… Read more
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Welcome 2022!
Like many of us, I am keen to adios 2021 and welcome in 2022 tonight. While my family had a successful year, especially our boys who we are so very proud of, the challenges we have had to face (around prejudice, bias, equity and inclusion) have tired us greatly, and that is before even considering… Read more
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Could Omicron bring the pandemic to an end?
Absolutely nobody can definitively answer this with robust reasoning based on what is known at this point in time, but IT IS a possibility. We should act with caution but also with hope in our hearts. Now some explanation, first an apposite anecdote. My first job after my PhD was researching the viral cause of… Read more
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Responsibility and Atonement
When do I as a man stand to account for my actions Me alone? When were my racist thoughts and actions mine to own and not that of my upbringing? My father’s? My uncle’s? For it was me, too, that laughed at Kevin Bloody Wilson when I was a teen With his vile words that… Read more
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