Posts by Author: James Wheeldon

3 published posts by James Wheeldon.

Where is the Palestinian Mandela?

A few days after fighting between Hamas and Fatah took a dozen lives and led to the destruction of various Palestinian government buildings, the Fatah-affiliated head of Palestinian intelligence services believes Palestine is on the verge of civil war : We are already at the b...

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Posted in Politics - international, History

Selling T3, continued

Alan Kohler has a piece on T3 in Wednesday's Herald that, as you would expect, does a pretty decent job of unpacking what's going on. He notes the huge commissions being offered to the stock salesmen, and concludes that: ...you can't believe anything most brokers say about Tel...

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Posted in Economics and public policy

Selling T3

Guest Post by James Wheeldon of http://www.jameswheeldon.net/ The Commonwealth Government is about to embark on a $20 million advertising campaign to encourage retail investors to pick up Telstra shares in the "T3" third tranche of its privatization. It is generally accepted...

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Posted in Economics and public policy