Trump and the new world (dis)order
[getty src="622166468" width="594" height="396"] What are the effects of having a US president who is diminished in stature and yet not facing imminent job loss?...
A Good Walk Spoiled
From Revisionist History In the middle of Los Angeles — a city with some of the most expensive real estate in the world — there...
Australia, New Zealand, the OECD and the better life index
Working out why the Australian economy has left New Zealand's in the dust for the last thirty years is a bit tricky. I've had a go at it...
Fire and ice
https://www.youtube.com/embed/s2Ybgtc7XA4 Last night I came off a series of deadlines and sat in my chair, catching up on a backlog of emails. I also watched David Stratton's series on...
A 50 per cent top rate makes sense
[getty src="171148424" width="498" height="344"] My column last week for The CEO Magazine reiterates a point made previously at Troppo: the weight of research shows decisively...
The pervasive externalities of pro-social behaviour: who knew?
[caption id="attachment_30732" align="alignright" width="373"] What is this picture doing here? It is one of the images selected by Google when I typed in "now is...
Will the bank levy actually lower bank profits? Maybe not.
In the comments section of my earlier post about hatred of the banks, John Walker (no relation) asked: If the big four did pass on...