Author Archives: macroedgo

OK, I have tried to be a “team player” and not be (seen to be) alarmist but it’s time to start YELLING (well talk sternly, anyhow). It seems that I am not alone in feeling like this (actually, I have noticed that I am getting a regular reader from Switzerland, and I have noticed anContinue reading “No, She Won’t Be Alright Mate”

This is an article that I always intended to write on my site. I just never imagined that it would be this poignant, no, critical for Australians… It is January 2001 and I am sitting in the office of my then boss, Dr Bernie Robinson, in the Edmund Barton Building in Canberra along with hisContinue reading “Politics and Biosecurity”

Firstly, I initially said that I was going to restrict this to only people who signed my petition, Je suis Chinois, but the reality is that I do not have it in me to restrict important information. If I did that then I would be no better than those who seek to divide us. AllContinue reading “Dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic”

Australians need to wake up – your politicians right now are deciding between jobs and high house prices on the one hand, and a higher death rate amongst over 40 year olds on the other. Between economic activity and people’s lives. In this time of global pandemic, Australia has a choice. Use our significant advantageContinue reading “Australian politicians care more about the health of our prawns and bananas than about people”

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”