Monthly Archives: March 2008

The Mystery of the Missing Feed

Posted on March 31, 2008 by Jacques Chester

On and off over the past few months I have received emails to say that our feeds don’t appear in aggregators like Google Reader or Bloglines. Or that they turn up late in big bunches. Or days in arrears. Each … Continue reading →

Posted in Geeky Musings, IT and Internet, Site News | 14 Comments

Missing Link Daily

Posted on March 31, 2008 by Ken Parish

A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Petering Time is listening to Kevin and hearing a … Continue reading →

Posted in Missing Link, Uncategorised | 34 Comments

Forward to the Past

Posted on March 30, 2008 by Jacques Chester

A Troppo reader thoughtfully emailed me to point out that our clock was way out of whack. For some reason WordPress had decided to set its time to GMT+22, which means that comments in the last day or so have … Continue reading →

Posted in Site News | 5 Comments

Two economic paradoxes of our time: Part One – the paradoxes

Posted on March 30, 2008 by Nicholas Gruen

Paradox one Over the very time we were clearing away the detritus of the various collectivist institutions we cobbled together under the name of the Australian Settlement, or ‘protection all round’, while we proceeded with economic reform by deregulating markets … Continue reading →

Posted in Art and Architecture, Economics and public policy, IT and Internet, Journalism, Media | 38 Comments

The skills of the fathers

Posted on March 30, 2008 by Nicholas Gruen

Courtesy of Clive Crook, here’s a fascinating chart on skills development across OECD countries. The graph shows the proportion of the labour force with at least a college degree, by age group, for OECD countries. The bigger the span of … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics and public policy, Education | 21 Comments

Hillary Clinton: I told you so

Posted on March 30, 2008 by Nicholas Gruen

Hillary Clinton is a strange female politician.  Politicians have to play to their strengths, and some of those are gendered.  I argued in this post that it would surely be very difficult for Hillary Clinton to win by being aggressive.  … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics - international | 2 Comments

Clive Crook takes a mean photo

Posted on March 29, 2008 by Nicholas Gruen

Here’s an example, but there’s a whole gallery of pretty amazing landscape’s here. Not bad for an (excellent) economic journalist.

Posted in Art and Architecture, Economics and public policy | 1 Comment