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Sunk costs and the Commonwealth Games
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Many of you would have seen the news over the last few weeks about Victoria cancelling the commonwealth games plans due to financial constraints. Is this the right decision when viewed through an economic lens – looking at the concept of a...
Private equity investments
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Looking at alternative to listed shares, with private equity. Globally, private equity has for many years been a niche area of the investment universe, dominated by institutional investors and very wealthy individuals. However, trends in...
Predicting future market returns using the Buffett indicator
Welcome to Finance and Fury. The returns for shares over the last few years has not been good – especially in comparison to other assets – Is it still worth it to invest in shares? Afterall, the Australian Share index is sitting almost the same point as 18 months ago,...
Incentives, economic inequality and poverty
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Last week’s episode laid the ground work for how incentives work in relation to economic decision making – this week we will be looking at one aspect to expand on this topic – that is how our incentives to help others can be used against...
The importance of economic incentives, problems and economics
Welcome to Finance and Fury. A few weeks ago we did an episode on the Manifesto of Equals – got me thinking more about the nature of humans and how we respond to incentives – and how this can be really good for us, or be highjacked at our detriment – this is all food...
End of the financial year checklist
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Sorry for no episodes, EOFY always a busy time, so haven’t had a chance to prep much or find time to record. Excuses` out of the way and in the spirt of the end of the financial year – as it is almost here – I wanted to do a bit of a...