This guy seems is a real iconoclast. His take is that we have ten or fifteen years to go before there is another bull market. And that what people need to do right now is to focus on keeping what you have rather than trying to get 10% or more returns on investment…

It had to happen…. God has a Facebook page. (tip of the hat to Laurel Papworth). And the original with lots more is at College Humor…

Here are the predictions of the experts on how long, how deep, how painful the recession will be in the US and how soon it will start to turn around… These are the people who not only saw the meltdown coming, but were prepared to stake their reputations on it… Some examples of what they [...]

Our intrepid reporter, Tom Koltai, has been following with great interest the recent announcements by The Communications Minister, Senator Conroy about his intentions to filter the Entire Internet for Australian Internet Users. Here is his take on the proposed Internet Filter Legislation: (updated 27th December 2008) I  have been following with great interest the recent [...]

I was listening to Left, Right and Center earlier today on my iPod. It's one of the great programs that KCRW in Santa Monica broadcasts…. In the “end of show rants” Tony Blankly talked about the dearth of Christmas music on the radio this year – all the AM stations in the US are now [...]

If it was just in some random blog, you's have to think, “Ah – another nutty conspiracy theory”. But this time it is in what you would have to say is at least a reasonably credible mainstream media outlet, albeit regional: The Phoenix Business Journal. Earlier this week there was an article reporting on a [...]

I was reading Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's column in the Telegraph (the UK paper, not the Australian one) this morning. It brought home to me how fortunate we, who live in Australia, are. But it also underlines how blase we are too. Most people in Australia have no idea of the potential of the Madoff scam in [...]

There is a growing demand for early warning systems in business. Everyone is getting into the prediction business. The reason is pretty simple – the predictable certainty has gone out of almost everything. Think about it. In the UK supermarket chains are starting to build “Plan B” strategies because they think that their suppliers have [...]

Over the last few weeks I have been having some meetings with people from the music business. And believe it or not, there are still some very intelligent and hard working people in the biz! One of the meetings was at The Music Network which is run by Keith Welsh. We were talking about a [...]