The Lucky Country
The mother of all f**kups – Assumptions and their unintended consequences
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition Going to run through the last part of the Lucky country – and that is how we can best turn our luck around Through – innovation, freedom of choice, and ignoring narratives based on assumptions Going to skip...
read moreThe RBA rate drop will further compound our ‘low growth trap’, rather than stimulating the economy
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition In this ep, we continue looking at the lucky country look at a downward spiral in growth – low growth traps – and how it is created by what is meant to help growth? Low growth trap – The big problem comes...
read moreHow to create a rising share market?
Welcome to FInance and Fury, the Furious Friday Edition. Following the series of the Lucky Country – You don’t need to have listened to the last few FF eps for this one – rare event – but will be talking about a few related factors, like GDP growth, Interest...
read moreWhy do we look to be in a Property Bubble?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition. Today we have a pretty good episode! (I find this interesting at least, so I hope you do too) – We’re talking about the Australia Property market, specifically the property bubble. How monetary policy has...
read moreHow our monetary system has been either your best friend in the past, or currently your worst enemy
Welcome to Furious Friday – Today – Continue with the Lucky Country Australia – Today – want to run through how a lot of our luck – especially if you have owned property, comes from the design of Australia’s monetary system since the early 90s. But diminishing...
read moreWhat is Luck? And how can we be manipulated through information, destroying the luck that we have
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition Last week: Being grateful for what we have, where Australia started and where we have come Today: Luck truly running out How it can be manipulated What is luck? Success or failure apparently brought by chance...
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