Moomin Valley

I feel that 1997 might be a good analogy to 2025. After an aborted recession in 1994 (2022) the stock market went up strongly in both 1995 (...

So I wore this shirt to lunch with a couple of friends today: After the first friend left, I was saying how I hated buying clothes (because ...

Take all the bitcoin in the world and divide by the number of people - how much is an equal share? About 0.0025. Similarly, an equal share o...

    Ramit Sethi has started a podcast  titled of course: "I Will Teach You to be Rich" and subtitled: "Real money stories f...

I got an email today from the city planning office that the development in our neighbourhood that I had objected to was refused planning ...

A couple of days ago I posted a list o f all 12 of Labor's proposed tax increases. How likely is it that these will actually be enacted?...

My brother asked me what my forecast for the stock market was. Here is what I wrote to him: "Well, I’ve been surprised how weak it ha...

This Wall Street Journal article goes on about how an exchange traded managed fund like the proposed PIMCO Total Return ETF is not big deal...

I've recently done two small consultancies - one for an agency of the Cyprus government and one for a US government agency. The Cyprus p...

You've probably heard about Amy Bishop who shot three faculty members at the University of Albama in Huntsville after she was denied ten...

I was actually sent a statement by Unisuper yesterday, but the glitches continue . I noticed that my account was about one month behind wher...

After the previous government raised the residency requirement in Australia to 4 years from 2 for those seeking to become Australian citizen...

Because the equation feature in Word 2004 wasn't entirely compatible with with Macintosh OS 10.5 (some notation appeared incorrectly tho...

A Black Swan in Canberra Nicholas Taleb has http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5d5aa24e-23a4-11de-996a-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1">an ...

Apparently momentum is growing to abolish Australia's system of dividend imputation . In Australia companies pass on tax credits attache...

I've noticed that petrol (gasoline) has gone up in price from a low of $A0.99 a litre ($US2.41 a gallon) to around $A1.25 a litre ($US3....

The Australian government announced its second stimulus package today . Included is a bonus payment of "up to $A950" for every wor...

A discussion of Bernanke's speech yesterday argues that it was the impact of the Lehman collapse on the Reserve Money Market Fund and...

A comment I posted on " Graceful Retirement " as part of the ongoing discussion about Meg's blogposts : "I'm not too ...

As the U.S. seems to be reaching consensus on the next stage in addressing its financial crisis I thought about another financial crisis ten...