Service 1st- August 13, 2008 Top ten reasons to work for Service 1st. Hilarious.http://chatswood.typepad.com/moneyblog/2008/08/service-1st.html Winnowing Away at the Olympics- August 12, 2008 Hat tip: Mike Maloney, for finding this in the Nelson Mail. It couldn't wait till Friday. Almost as much fun as reported support for recognising 'triples', with background here.http://chatswood.typepad.com/moneyblog/2008/08/winnowing-away-at-the-olympics.html Tiers for Advisers- August 11, 2008 When I first read this heading on the piece at www.goodreturns.co.nz I thought it was an attempt at sports-page type headlines, and was a deliberate play on 'tears for advisers'. Such is the concern that advisers might have about this...http://chatswood.typepad.com/moneyblog/2008/08/tiers-for-advisers.html Would you like a boom like Australia's Or Saudi Arabia's- August 10, 2008 Because you can have one if you'd like. Link.http://chatswood.typepad.com/moneyblog/2008/08/would-you-like-a-boom-like-australias-or-sa... A dubious silver lining- August 10, 2008 In a long piece in the Herald about the financial impact of falling values, the following quote stuck out: "The good news is that with finance companies now cleared out of the market, banks are getting more money in deposits...http://chatswood.typepad.com/moneyblog/2008/08/a-dubious-silver-lining.html A call for more private participation in infrstructure development- August 10, 2008 Bernard Hickey makes a call for more private investment in infrastructure. I couldn't agree more. Well rehearsed arguments against private sector funding, which mainly turn on it costing more than government borrowing are actually quite limited. If the government's balance...http://chatswood.typepad.com/moneyblog/2008/08/a-call-for-more-private-participation-in-in... Keep up with polling- August 10, 2008 ..over at Curiablog. Lot's of detail, many individual seat polls, and a good rolling poll. Link: http:curiablog.wordpress.comhttp://chatswood.typepad.com/moneyblog/2008/08/keep-up-with-polling.html More Sex is Safer Sex- August 7, 2008 This entertaining title is my cheerful response to being gently wound up about using sex as a hook to get people interested in my recent piece on goodreturns. Of course, if there is a subject that desperately needs a little...http://chatswood.typepad.com/moneyblog/2008/08/more-sex-is-safer-sex.html Tomatina Festival- August 7, 2008 This presentation is not in English, but the pictures tell the story. Glorious. Enjoy your Friday!http://chatswood.typepad.com/moneyblog/2008/08/tomatina-festival.html Sequal- August 6, 2008 An HER conference - Okay it's Australia - but if you want to know, you'd better go. Hat tip to Rob Dowler of SHERPA. Download sequal_reverse_mortgage_conference_2008.pdfhttp://chatswood.typepad.com/moneyblog/2008/08/sequal.html |