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Category Archives: Finance and Economics
december memories / 12
NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN (ALMOST) 12th December, 1900 : Moves are under way to make sure that Melbourne’s young street vendors receive at least some education in state schools. The former Victorian Minister for Education under the McLean … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Education, Finance and Economics, History
Tagged Charles Salmon, street vendors, street vendors' licensing, Victoria
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december memories / 09
NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN (ALMOST) 9th December, 1949 : With the Chinese Civil War confined to little more than sporadic resistance on the mainland, and the Communists firmly in control in Peking, the Nationalist Government has shifted its … Continue reading
Posted in Civil War, Communism, Finance and Economics, History
Tagged Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese economy, Communist China, Formosa, Mao Tse Tung, Yen Hsi-shan
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december memories / 04
NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN (ALMOST) 4th December, 1953 : Oil has been discovered off the coast of Western Australia and experts are predicting the field will be as large as 300,000 square miles. The United States Standard Oil … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Finance and Economics, History
Tagged Ampol, Exmouth Gulf, oil discovery, Standard Oil Company, Western Australia
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US economy explained by Dominic
Posted in America, Finance and Economics, Fraud
Tagged Hussain Obama, quantitative easing, US debt, US economy, US voters
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Spirit of compromise II
from the quill of Antisthenes the Younger I do not envy Abbott (the Australian Prime Minister, for the foreign readers). Forty-seven percent of the voting age population prefer Labor and its policies, and so does, I guess, a similar … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Finance and Economics, Journalism, Liberal Party
Tagged ADM, Ford, General Motors Holden, GrainCorp, Joe Hockey, Tony Abbott, workplace reforms
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Economy
from the quill of Antisthenes the Younger Down and down we go … Australia, do not expect miracles from LibNats; they are as crooked and incompetent as that cabal of trade union apparatchiks masquerading as a political party.
Posted in Australia, Finance and Economics
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Farage on the lack of Global Warming
Posted in Climate Change, Finance and Economics, Socialism, Uncategorized
Tagged climate change, EU, Euro
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Post mortem
Rudolf Vyborny Introduction. Watching media coverage and analysis of Labor’s defeat was very surprising for me. Similarly as Rudd’s speech it looks more like celebrating victory than admission of a defeat. No grace at all. ABC, for instance, interviewed many … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Christianity, Election, Finance and Economics, Labour Party
Tagged ALP, Kevin Rudd
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Saturday close enough
Tim Andrews Every day this week I’ve been getting the same sort of emails: “Saturday won’t matter, they’re all the same, nothing will change, why should I bother”. This argument is flat out wrong and you should reject it for … Continue reading
They are all Lathams
…from the quill of Antisthenes the Younger Astute readers may have discerned by reading between the lines that I am not a particular admirer of the Labor. The Australian Labor Party tries very hard that I remain so. … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Election, Finance and Economics, Fraud, Journalism, Labour Party
Tagged ALP, Kevin Rudd, Mark Latham, The Financial Review
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Finally
Posted in Australia, Corruption, Education, Election, Finance and Economics, Health, History, Labour Party, Military, Socialism
Tagged AWU extrortion scandal, AWU scandal, Craig Thomson, HSU, Julia Gillard
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Up in the smoke
…from the quill of Antisthenes the Younger Rudd’s last shreds of credibility are going up in the tobacco tax smoke. A cigar smoker, who employs a Cuban Ambassador as a carrier of duty free tobacco [Kevin Rudd – July 12, … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Bureaucracy, Finance and Economics, Fraud, Health, Labour Party
Tagged Kevin Rudd, tobacco taxes
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Naděje
Pavel Jacko Dokud dýchám, doufám/dum spiro, spero. Tohle latinské přísloví mi přišlo na mysl, když jsem se svým známým diskutoval o současné australské politické a hospodářské situaci. Chtěl jsem ho ukonejšit, a protože v našem věku mluvit o dýchání … Continue reading
British humour
…from the quill of Antisthenes the Younger The British humour we used to know was dry, almost desiccated. P G Woodehouse, Jerome K Jerome … all the way down to Rowan Atkinson. The recent residents of that famous faith of … Continue reading
Credit Implosion in the Middle Kingdom
Posted in Capitalism, Communism, Corruption, Finance and Economics, HyperInflation, Uncategorized
Tagged China, Credit, economics
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Update on the US real estate market
Posted in America, Finance and Economics, HyperInflation
Tagged Real estate, toxic debt
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They know better
…from the quill of Antisthenes the Younger I have been discussing with my friends for some time now whether the overwhelmingly left pseudo-elite, a.k.a chattering class, is running out of puff (no homosexual pun intended). Now even Mr Keith … Continue reading