The Great Which Hunt
For decades SNOOTS have been hunting down whiches and replacing them with thats. Whenever a SNOOT discovers the relative pronoun which introducing a restrictive clause,...
ISP, telco, VoIP, mobile and mobile broadband packages bleg
I have separate contracts for all of the above. Sounds daft to me. I note that TPG now has an 'all you can eat' mobile...
Cutting the GST: a dumb idea from the textbook
The financial crisis has been the making of Gordon Browne we're told. While Hank Paulson was holding masterclasses in crony capitalism Gordon Browne's rescue package...
Peter Martin can spot a good idea when he sees one
But I would say that wouldn't I? From today's Age. IT'S crunch time at the Henry tax review. . . . The good news is that...
Hierarchy, altruism and gender
I wish I had more time to look at all this stuff, which is very suggestive of interesting things. I have a proposal for you,...
Small isn’t all bad in banking
This is an interesting article about small banking in the US - the US have always had a thing about small banks and there are...
Steve Keen and Rory Robertson: one of them is on the way to Kosciusko
From Rory's newsletter I was in Canberra yesterday, presenting at the Federal Treasury and the Parliamentary Library. Over the past year, I've often been the...