Political Economics
Investing around geopolitical risks
Welcome to Finance and Fury. In this episode we will be looking at geopolitical risks and equity portfolios. Geopolitical risks are nothing new – these are always going on and equity markets are always looking at geopolitical risks – and how it will impact the price...
read moreFrogs and taxes
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Question: Would you be comfortable paying an individual carbon tax? Most people may say yes, depending on how much. In this episode we look at the history of taxes and look what I believe is a new type of tax that we will face, being a...
read moreCan a Central Bank go bankrupt and collapse the economy?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Today we explore whether a Central Bank can go bankrupt and collapse the economy? In the modern state of the economy, if fiat money fails due to central banking errors, what does this mean for the global financial system and central banks?...
read moreThe bane of economic growth
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Everyone is talking about bad economic conditions at the moment and bear markets – but what is the cause? Slowing economic growth and a lack of recovery, higher inflation has many different causes that have piled up over the years – but at...
read moreAffordable rental policies and unintended consequences
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Today’s episode is going to be going through some economic theory on some recent promises from politicians on housing policy – the focus on most of these has been on rental markets – for affordable rent – there’s lots of coverage on...
read moreThe economic impact from the Russia-Ukraine conflict on financial markets
Welcome to Finance and Fury. I hope you are all doing well and safe at the moment – I know a lot of people in QLD and NSW have lost their homes and my thoughts go out to you - where we live is currently cut off – we are fortunate though – no flooding in the house –...
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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...