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The year that was and making rational investment decisions
Welcome to Finance and Fury, and Happy New year. I hope you are all having a great start to the year. As it is a new year, a lot of podcasts and even previous episodes that I have done have been looking forward for the coming year, on setting goals or where to invest...
read moreUsing economic theory to maximise your own life and personal wealth
Welcome to Finance and Fury. In today’s episode, we will be looking at a way to think differently about maximising your own life and personal wealth – We are going to do this by breaking down the economic factors of productions and rather than applying these to an...
read moreWhat is considered poor in Australia and how to become truly rich?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. I recently was reading an ABC article about the latest earnings reports from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – revealing the average income in Australia – now this average is probably a little higher than what most people would...
read moreHow to reduce the root causes of financial stress
Welcome to Finance and Fury – I hope you are all going well In this episode – I want to talk about reducing financial stress – times are tough at the moment for many households – We have an economic environment of high prices of commodity-based goods, such as food,...
read moreHow much do you need to save for retirement?
I hope you are all well and welcome to Finance and Fury. This week – we have a topic from another listener, Jason – he wanted to get my thoughts about a recent article on ABC News about saving for retirement and how much you need to actually have saved – as in this...
read moreWhere do you stand in relation to the average Australian?
Welcome to Finance and Fury – Where do you stand in relation to the average Australian financially – To be honest, this is a pretty useless question – as you should only compare your financial situation to yourself from yesterday - but the aim of this episode is to...
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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...