Monthly Archives: September 2007

I can do that!

Posted on September 30, 2007 by Nicholas Gruen

In case you haven’t seen it. And, to remind you of this blog’s ‘centrist’ roots, remember as you’re watching, it was Paul Keating who first introduced this style of advertising. Remember Bill Hunter clambering around the wide brown land telling … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics - national | 6 Comments

From here to fraternity

Posted on September 30, 2007 by Nicholas Gruen

My brother and I both tried quite hard not to be economists. And we both failed fairly miserably. He’s been busy producing some interesting graphs concerning the two intergenerational reports.

Posted in Economics and public policy, Interesting Graphs | 5 Comments

Will no-one rid me of these evil moneylenders: Part One

Posted on September 29, 2007 by Nicholas Gruen

Not only is life tough but you try finding a parking spot in a busy shopping centre. Whenever I do I can usually find some place where they could have fitted an extra parking spot. And pretty obviously if theyd … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics and public policy | 234 Comments

Weekend Quiz

Posted on September 29, 2007 by Nicholas Gruen

Who said this? Though it sounds paradoxical to say that . . . to prevent ourselves from making the wrong decision we must deliberately reduce the range of choice before us, we all know that this is often necessary in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorised | 14 Comments

Paris 2007: Unimaginable without Bernie

Posted on September 29, 2007 by Christopher Sheil

In the biggest scandal since Phar Lap, Australia’s chance of a third rugby World Cup may have sunk this week, thanks to some Dirty Pierre infecting the great Bernie Larkham. Australia was always only an outside chance, assuming our champion … Continue reading →

Posted in Sport - rugby | 47 Comments

Hairspray!

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Nicholas Gruen

I’ve just been to see Hairspray – a cinematic version of a Broadway Smash – well I don’t know if it was a box office smash but it won lots of awards. It’s a musical set in Baltimore in 1962 … Continue reading →

Posted in Films and TV | 9 Comments

Information, supervising the financial markets and the sub-prime crisis

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Nicholas Gruen

For a fair while I’ve been interested in things like who appoints and pays for auditors of public companies and whether we’ve got it right (given that the information provided by auditors of companies for instance is a public or … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics and public policy, regulation | 8 Comments