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If I had a dollar for every 5 minute expert in the business media calling for a V-shaped recovery, like occurred after the SARS outbreak 17 years ago, I would be rich even before I took it and added to my growing portfolio of shorts… The reference to my short portfolio is not made flippantly,Continue reading “Repeat After Me, This is NOT SARS: COVID-19 is much worse”

Anybody with a rudimentary understanding of infectious disease should have understood by the start of February or earlier that the coronavirus outbreak had not been contained to Wuhan or wider China. While the Chinese Government has come under fire from some quarters for not acting quickly to report the outbreak and to enact containment measures,Continue reading “Politics Vs Society in the Coronavirus Outbreak”

In my first comments on the Coronavirus outbreak within my essay “Social Cohesion: The Best Vaccine Against Crises” which I published two weeks ago, on 3 February 2020, I stated my belief that the virus had already escaped the biosecurity net and that a global pandemic was, unfortunately, likely. I stated that the characteristics ofContinue reading “The Coronavirus Outbreak in Japan”

By way of background, Elliott Roosevelt is the son of President Franklin Roosevelt (commonly referred to as FDR) who led the United States of America through its most challenging period of the 20th century from the Great Depression through to World War 2, from 1933 to his passing on 12 April 1945 as the warContinue reading “The Introduction to “As He Saw It” by Elliott Roosevelt”

Without doubt the United States of America is an incredible nation. Many successful Americans, along with those that “made it good” in America, talk about a “magic sauce” that has created the economic dynamism that drives American business and society. One of the greatest proponents of there being a “secret sauce” is Warren Buffett, widelyContinue reading “The Magic Sauce of American Economic Dynamism Is Not Based on Personal Greed”

Read by Peter Harvey after the 2010 Federal Election On Saturday in the federal election I voted informally along with a lot of other Australians. It was the first time in the 22 years that I have been voting that I did so. And in discussing my decision with others I learned that many wereContinue reading ““60 Minutes” Letter”

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 WorldContinue reading “The Conundrum Humanity Faces: But Nobody Admits”

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 27thContinue reading “Social Cohesion:The Best Vaccine Against Crises”

I have little time for most of the “talking heads” that appear on mainstream television and comment throughout the mainstream media, presenting themselves as all-knowing on economic and investing topics and seeing themselves as fulfilling a vital function in society telling people what they should think. Often these people have developed a quirky or folksyContinue reading “Forget Trickle-down Economics: It Has Always Been Vacuum Up to the Elites”

As a single income family dependent on the income of an Asian-Australian female, and having two sons of obvious Asian-Australian descent, workplace diversity is an issue close to our hearts and it directly affects our security on many levels. For anybody wishing to authentically open their eyes to the challenges minorities face in their careersContinue reading “Quotas are necessary to address workplace diversity”