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Weatherman Economics: Get to the top…of something very small
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An analysis of interest rates, the economy, a handful of economists, a randomiser, and the artist formerly known as Prince. Friday, February 17, 2012. Get to the top…of something very small. Cranfield’s use of climbing imagery to promote its MBA program (".get to the top in today's business environment.") misfires on the basis that this bloke is obviously bouldering, so the thing he’s scaling is probably a full 12’ tall. Inspirational stuff! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Wall St. forecasters an...
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Weatherman Economics: EU Leaders
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An analysis of interest rates, the economy, a handful of economists, a randomiser, and the artist formerly known as Prince. Friday, November 11, 2011. Given the financial catastrophes engulfing their countries, it’s interesting to note what their leaders are focussing on:. Posted by The Weatherman. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Amidst all the mouth-frothing about the decision by ANZ and Westpac to add 0.06% and 0.10% respectively to their standard variable rate hom. Given the Weatherman’s foc...
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Weatherman Economics: Adelaide’s first billion dollar homes
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An analysis of interest rates, the economy, a handful of economists, a randomiser, and the artist formerly known as Prince. Sunday, February 12, 2012. Adelaide’s first billion dollar homes. Adelaide’s Sunday Mail reports today that average house prices in the leafy inner-east suburb of College Park are about to hit $2m. The Mail discusses this with the President of the Real Estate Institute, who explains that he’s not surprised by the news. They double every seven years do they? I see the ASIC Summer Sch...
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Weatherman Economics: First home owners and crack cocaine
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An analysis of interest rates, the economy, a handful of economists, a randomiser, and the artist formerly known as Prince. Tuesday, January 24, 2012. First home owners and crack cocaine. Chris Richardson from Deloitte Access has an interesting piece on government stimulus programs in Deloitte’s quarterly Business Outlook, which includes the following neat little summary of government first home owners schemes:. Some other extracts of the report can be found here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Weatherman Economics: The Lucky Country
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An analysis of interest rates, the economy, a handful of economists, a randomiser, and the artist formerly known as Prince. Tuesday, July 31, 2012. Following on from his recent glass half full. 8221; speech the RBA Governor Glen Stevens recently gave a talk entitled The Lucky Country. The strength of Australian financial institutions going in to the global financial crisis. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This is what the Bankers Association means when it says bank profits are middle of the road.
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Weatherman Economics: The AFR and mathematics
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An analysis of interest rates, the economy, a handful of economists, a randomiser, and the artist formerly known as Prince. Thursday, January 10, 2013. The AFR and mathematics. More sackcloth and ashes stuff concerning employment data in today’s AFR, including the strident by-line “Swan’s maths are a mess when it comes to our employment data”. I’ve got a few issues with this approach, namely:. 160; If we go further back in time the participation rate was way less than it is now:. This is what the Bankers...
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Weatherman Economics: Bank ROEs
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An analysis of interest rates, the economy, a handful of economists, a randomiser, and the artist formerly known as Prince. Sunday, November 6, 2011. This is what the Bankers Association means when it says bank profits are "middle of the road". Posted by The Weatherman. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Amidst all the mouth-frothing about the decision by ANZ and Westpac to add 0.06% and 0.10% respectively to their standard variable rate hom. Adelaide’s first billion dollar homes. Given the Weatherman&#...
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Weatherman Economics: Ninjas strike back!
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An analysis of interest rates, the economy, a handful of economists, a randomiser, and the artist formerly known as Prince. Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Some time ago I posed a question about why the Australian Office of Financial Management would want to include low doc loans in its purchases of securitised mortgages (see Low doc loans? Ship ‘em in! And Low doc loans a concern to ASIC. Although it seems like an answer is as far away as ever. Posted by The Weatherman. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Weatherman Economics: OECD Better Life
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An analysis of interest rates, the economy, a handful of economists, a randomiser, and the artist formerly known as Prince. Thursday, May 24, 2012. The OECD has a great website here. That ranks countries by various health and wellbeing indicators like housing, education, jobs, health care etc. Overall results are as follows:. On this measure Australia is ranked #31 – looks like we need to get some Danes down here to show us how to chill out. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Adelaide’s Sunday Mai...
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Weatherman Economics: Banks lifted rates to boost profits…or maybe not
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An analysis of interest rates, the economy, a handful of economists, a randomiser, and the artist formerly known as Prince. Thursday, March 22, 2012. Banks lifted rates to boost profits…or maybe not. Mark the ABC news story below. Headline says “Banks lifted rates to bolster profits: RBA”. Story says “Banks didn’t lift rates to bolster profits: RBA”. Presumably you need to be an ABC copywriter to understand the nuances of this. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). First home owners and crack cocaine.
