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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”

In this section I will concentrate heavily on my upbringing in rural Queensland because the trends are perhaps even more marked, and thus serve as an excellent example, but these same trends are just as relevant in urban centres. When I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s in northern Queensland, every Saturday morning theContinue reading “Investment Theme: Product and Food Miles”

War… Wo, wo, wo, what is it good for… I never cease to be amazed by the predisposition of human beings for wasting resources, but in reality the greatest waste of human beings through history has been OF human beings (as in their lives). To get a flavour of this there are several convenient sourcesContinue reading “Let’s Wage War on Climate Change”

I can easily imagine how confused must be the typical Australian household. At the beginning of last week we were told in a private data release that in November 2019 house prices across the nation increased at their quickest rate in 16 years By the end of the week we were told how weak wasContinue reading “Consumers Have Too Little Animal Spirits, House Buyers Too Much… Really??”

My toddler son had allergies to wheat, corn, dairy and eggs which meant that he only ever ate home-made food. At playgroups, while the other toddlers sat down to cheesels and M&Ms and any other manner of highly-processed sugary sweets, he sat down to leftovers of corn beef and vegetables. One day at playgroup aContinue reading “Hands off My Chinese Tanas”

SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1945 Reproduced here in full from The Avalon Project: documents in law, history and diplomacy, Yale Law School. Mr. Chief Justice, Mr. Vice President, my friends, you will understand and, I believe, agree with my wish that the form of this inauguration be simple and its words brief. We Americans of today,Continue reading “Fourth Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt”

I have been banging on about the lack of leadership in Australia for over a decade. In the lead up to the 2010 Federal Election I had a letter read on “60 Minutes” supporting Mark Latham’s urge to voters to donkey vote (or intentionally ensure that their vote was informal) because he articulated the reason,Continue reading “The Authenticity Piece For Leadership is Right in My Wheelhouse”