What’s just happened is no Harold Holt situation, but when you “lose” a prime minister, you tend to lose a few other things too. One of them is a whole bunch of promises. Out the window go the old ones. The new guy wants a clean slate and a whole set of new promises […]
I’m tired. Of listening to codswallop. I’m bored of listening to people trying to stand out by predicting the future. I have, simply, read too many forecasts, too many predictions. I say this with a heavy heart, as I know I’ve got decades of my investing life left, where I’ll read thousands more. On average, […]
Property investors are getting belted. U-huh, I know what that means. Property prices are on the march, aren’t they? The anti-investor screams are no longer like the distant roar of an ocean crashing from behind a sand dune, but the screaming headlines in a media article, which sound more like a hungry six-month old […]
One of the many labels you could plonk on my parents is “hippies”. It’s not just their home-grown organic food, the solar-powered house, or their constant rewatching of British 70s sitcom, “The Good Life”. And they’re not dastardly annoying hippies, like Neil from “The Young Ones”. But new-age hippies they certainly are. More than anything, […]
The great thing about being a Generation Xer is that we’ve still got youth. At least in a relative sense. Sure, I’ve forgotten a few words to some Cold Chisel songs, but not because of dementia. I struggle to keep up with my kids sometimes, but I’m still arthritis-free. And I certainly cringe when I […]
Exhausting, depressing, scary and life-changing. The crashing end of a long-term relationship can be physically and mentally all-consuming. Contemplating life as a single, or setting off on the search for happiness again, can be daunting. For many, it will be a sliding door they didn’t want opened. Others will splash on some blue face […]
Being diagnosed with a potentially deadly health condition in your 20s holds no positives. Not for the person whose lap it falls on. Not for their partner. Nor their children. Never. When the illness is a slow, progressive, and almost assured, death sentence, the younger the person, the more depressing the story. But sometimes, foresight […]
Oh, I yearn for the good old days, when robbers had to pickpocket you in the street, or sedate your dog before ransacking the home. They’re now so lazy, they pillage our finances from their own home – in Russia, Turkmenistan, or the Congo. So impersonal. I became a victim of internet credit card fraud […]
Keep your helmets on, investors – this is probably only a short break in hostilities. We’re still under attack. And the battles, on several fronts, aren’t likely to be over for some time yet. With the stock-market shenanigans, which at the end of August looked like they would right themselves, but then resumed stupidity. The […]
Penalties need to match the crime. And should be meted out to the evil-doer. As a statement, are there any objections? If I didn’t do the crime, should I be punished? So why do I feel like I am being whacked because someone vaguely related to me – like an idiot, […]
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