The ABC claims that the US financial crisis could cost $500 billion to $1 trilion. I don’t want to trivialise the amount, but it should be well within the capability of the US to cope with it.
Afterall the war in Iraq is estimated to have cost $3 trillion.
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September 20, 2008 | Graham
Sub-Prime easier than Iraq
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September 18, 2008 | Graham
LNP parcel passed to Malcolm Turnbull
What exactly is the new Liberal National Party? While according to the Queensland Parliament’s website it exists, some of its members are acting as though the merger had never happened and the National and Liberal parties still exist, at least at a federal level, in Queensland.
Barnaby Joyce, whose slogan, […] Continue Reading…
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September 15, 2008 | Ronda Jambe
Pura Vida! A second life in the second world
Life is not a simulation game! It is possible to find oneself in a different place, with a whole new set of challenges and adventures. There is no quick éscape´button, I´m here for a while, so I might as well settle in. I´m learning the rules of this new […] Continue Reading…
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September 12, 2008 | Graham
Wanted – new team member
OLO is published by The National Forum, which in turn contracts Internet Thinking to do that job and employ all the staff etc. Internet Thinking has also financed the growth of The National Forum. We’re a small team, and we are losing one of our members David (more commonly […] Continue Reading…
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September 09, 2008 | Graham
The unacknowledged legislators of mankind
Shelley once claimed that poets were the “unacknowledged legislators of mankind” a proposition with which my fellow English graduate Nathan Rees might agree. As someone who retired from writing poetry after producing a very modest published output, it’s an idea to which I’m not unsympathetic.
Belief in the manifest rightness […] Continue Reading…
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September 08, 2008 | Graham
Travails in the US – carbon reduction a stretch
Apparently the energy crisis is shifting Americans’ attitudes to global warming – they’re less worried. Hard to tell from the NBC report exactly what this means, although I gather 58 percent of them are still worried about the direction in which the environment is heading.
Judging from the picture on […] Continue Reading…
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September 08, 2008 | Graham
Nathan Rees’ CV
Not sure whether this is a self-serving post, or whether long-term the association will cause me minor embarrassment, but until Nathan Rees became an MP I thought I was the only person involved in politics whose CV contained both an English Honours Degree and a stint as a gardener.
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September 07, 2008 | Graham
Racial attitudes in Australia
My friend Andrew Leigh is doing research on racial attitudes in Australia, along with his colleague Alison Booth.
If you’re interested in helping out you can take their quizz at www.iat.org.au. I just have, and am quite pleased that I appear to show little or no preference one way or […] Continue Reading…
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September 04, 2008 | Graham
Travails in the US – Palin an inspired choice
We went to visit Pearl Harbour yesterday. Can you imagine doing a guided tour of the War Memorial in Canberra and being instructed to stay silent because this is a solemn place? When you visit the memorial to the Arizona which was the pride of the fleet destroyed at […] Continue Reading…
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September 03, 2008 | Graham
Travails in the US
I’m currently at a convention in Hawaii – life is hard for some. Apart from running OLO I also manage (at arms length) a Civic video store, and once every two years am obliged, at huge personal discomfort 😉 to go to a conference, normally held anywhere but Australia. […] Continue Reading…
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