Bruce Brammall, The Australian, 24 October, 2021 My dad gave me a foolproof rule to never lock my keys in my car. Always lock your car from the outside, with the keys. Simple, but unbeatable. And it saved me from ever locking my keys in the car. Except for once. The morning we bought our […]
Bruce Brammall, The Australian, 17 October, 2021 About 20 years ago, my office did a go-kart corporate bonding event, to get out of the workplace for a few hours. We were lectured on rules for safety, blah, blah, yawn, and how to win the trophy, before heading out onto the track. The winner wasn’t […]
Bruce Brammall, The Australian, 10 October, 2021 One obvious sign the neighbours are worried your party is going to get out of hand is when the cops show up, minutes after the noise limit laws kick in. The plods’ arrival is what economists might call a “positive indicator” your party is going swell […]
Bruce Brammall, The Australian, 3 October, 2021 Almost exactly 20 years ago, a few weeks after September 11, I told my girlfriend that I thought we needed a holiday. “How about New Zealand?” As we sat down for dinner in a noisy restaurant one night, after a long day touring wineries around […]
Bruce Brammall, The Australian, 26 September, 2021 Slowly, it creeps up on you. It spends half a lifetime silently approaching. And then, sometime in your 50s, it comes out of the shadows. And, like a spider landing in your lap when you lower the car’s sun visor at 80kmh, it scares the bejesus out of […]
I know this is a bit cruel. But watching young’uns trying to buy their first home right now is kinda like watching a kitten chase a piece of string. Kitty sees the end of the string. Kitty gets into the crouching position. Then … pounces! By the time fluffball has […]
Bruce Brammall, The Australian, 5 September, 2021 Sometimes you feel an overwhelming desire to wrest control of an aspect of your life that’s felt not quite right. You’ve been watching on, or maybe deeply involved, for years. Something has consistently pissed you off, or you’ve seen avoidable errors, or the decisions of others is […]
Bruce Brammall, The Australian, 29 August, 2021 It was all in the name of research for this column. But, I swear, now I’m at the point where now I want to kill someone. Specifically, If I had to choose one person, […]
Bruce Brammall, The Daily Telegraph, 15 August, 2021 Is the famous phrase “cash is king” such a truism that it can’t be argued? It has some great upsides. Cash is pure liquidity and can purchase anything. It allows you to act fast on opportunities. It’s accepted by everyone – except maybe crypto-loving Russian […]
Bruce Brammall, The Australian, 8 August, 2021 I love the old gag about economists and their wayward prognostications: […]
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