More Debt Than Expected

Governments’ budget proposals are just that – proposals – meaning they are subject to amendments. In implementation, they can differ greatly from their original plan. They are based upon assumptions such as tax rates, unemployment figures,...

How Can We Be Lovers?

Times are rough, but we can make it, We can work it out How can we be lovers if we can’t be friends? How can we start over if the fighting never ends?                 Michael Bolton...

Moneytalks

“Come on, come on, listen to the moneytalk” ACDC (1990) It has been a point of interest that Australian bond markets stick out in attractiveness compared to global peers, starting with our AAA-rated sovereign issued bonds, yielding higher than comparable...

Higher Love

Over the weekend I found myself reading an excerpt from Thomas Macaulay, a British historian in the early 1800’s. In 1830, T.B. Macaulay wrote in reply to the pessimists of his day: “We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that...