Monthly Archives: February 2008

Hearsay

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Nicholas Gruen

I’ve heard it attributed – perhaps apocryphally – to John Maynard Keynes the line that a legal training is a form of brain damage.  I couldn’t find it on google when I last looked, so I don’t know if he … Continue reading →

Posted in Law, Uncategorised | 31 Comments

Crikey! submission – time is running out

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Nicholas Gruen

We’re only about 3 or 4 subscribers away from 50. If anyone wants to jump on board – this is your last change to email me on [my first name] AT gruen DOT com DOT au.

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How many Australian bloggers are there, anyway?

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Jacques Chester

Via Blogpond comes word of a Nielsen survey (PDF) claiming that 2.3 million Australians have blogs. This is probably bad news for the Missing Link crew, except that there’s no figures on what percentage are MySpace pages and still active. … Continue reading →

Posted in Geeky Musings, IT and Internet, Metablogging | 9 Comments

Relative economic performance of New Zealand and Australia

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Fred Argy

In a recent post critical of a CIS article on New Zealand by Phil Rennie , Nicholas Gruen expressed “disappointment” that the author “cherry picked” to “make favoured points in line with the author’s priors”. Today there is an article … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorised | 4 Comments

Missing Link Daily

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Ken Parish

A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian David Tiley brings grossness into sharp focus with a post titled anyone seen Fido lately? … Continue reading →

Posted in Missing Link, Uncategorised | 22 Comments

Someone doesn’t like Obama

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Nicholas Gruen

“At a personal level, few people are as charismatic, capable and ruthless as this mixed-race political phenomenon.” Read all about it.

Posted in Politics - international | 5 Comments

Some thoughts of Ross Gittins

Posted on February 28, 2008 by Nicholas Gruen

Thanks to Ross for permission to post what he calls his ‘sermon to the Rudd Government’ delivered as: NEW DIRECTIONS IN ECONOMY POLICY, a talk to the Economic Society evening seminar, Sydney, Tuesday February 26, 2008 It occurs to me … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Economics and public policy, Politics - national | 3 Comments