Tag Archives: Global Financial Crisis
News That’s Fit To Punt – 10/May/2012
The Greek Situation The elections held last weekend in France and Greece tell us a lot where things are going. Where they’re going is not to a better place but to more chaos and turmoil. The French have kicled Nicolas … Continue reading
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News That’s Fit To Punt – 19/Mar/2012
The Capital Gains Revenue And The Property Bubble I wrote about the problems of vested interests leading to the disasters in Japan, several times. In Australia we’re at this smug point of history where our government debt ratio to GDP … Continue reading
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News That’s Fit To Punt – 12/Mar/2012
All The Best Cowboys Have Their Eyes on China The GFC story keeps spreading and spreading and the many headlines it has spawned are like the snake heads on Medusa’s head. This one comes from Pleiades. We all ought to … Continue reading
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News That’s Fit To Punt – 08/March/2012
Thought We Were In The Clear Did We? One of the mysteries of the GFCs and the stupendous amount of mass that we as a civilization accrued, and brought down Lehman Brothers, Bears Stearns Northern Rock and all of Iceland … Continue reading
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Same Shit, Different Day
More On Property Prices As if on cue, there are two articles today in the SMH as if to soothe the mounting anxiety about property prices. Here’s Ian Verrender trying to say that it’s not going to crash dramatically, it’s … Continue reading
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News That’s Fit To Punt – 01/Feb/2012
Citizen Rinehart The richest woman in Australia, Gina Rinehart has set her mind on buying into Fairfax, the company that owns the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Age, amongst other mastheads. The response coming out of the Fairfax stables has … Continue reading
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Dreaming Of Greek Island Villas
Different Spin Just a weird, weird thought for today. Would you move to Greece? I don’t know if you’ve ever looked, but today Mrs. Pleiades showed me a bunch of photos of Real Estate available in Greek Islands. Hey, I’m … Continue reading
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UK As Defiant Problem Child
Hello Dave Cameron, Eurosceptic I have to say movies are a lot less interesting than what’s been going on in the world since the GFC first reared its head in August 2007, a full year before the credit crunch that … Continue reading
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What The Hell Are They Thinking In Athens?
More Drama Than Drachma I’m trying to get my head around the logic of why (oh why) the Prime Minister of Greece George Papendreou would propose a referendum on the rescue package. First Mr Papandreou had to confront a hostile … Continue reading
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The Fall Of The Planet Of The Greedy Apes
They’re Fighting In The Streets There’s a simple explanation for why the popular front of the 1960s gave way to a lethargic 1970s, and it is basically that the Baby Boomers who got motivated enough to go to the barricades … Continue reading
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