Comfort with Money

When Bernborough was the darling of the Australian racing scene starting at “unbackable odds”, my father, who didn’t really follow the Saturday races, gave me the worldly advice “Never back a certainty because there is no such thing”. In the world of finance it has often been stated that the biggest casino in the USA is locked in Wall Street New York. Unfortunately, several of the investment advisers in our country use the terms punt and bet when reporting trades that they’ve

A casual observer (one who has no investments in the share market) would probably be heaving a sigh of relief that he or she is only an observer and not a participant in seeing investments dropping 10% or more in a single day. Participants will have a range of emotions but I have not yet read of mass suicides by brokers and/or investors like those who did not survive a high jump onto Wall Street in 1929. (Although we did have one some years ago in Brisbane). The old saying “I

I don’t even pretend to understand what the National Broadband Network does (or is going to do) for me and my communication with the rest of the world. Over the past year or so I’ve received, on average, three phone calls a month from Nicole who encourages me to hit “1” on my telephone keypad to make arrangements about connecting to the said broadband. If I fail to do immediately now that broadband is available in my neighbourhood, ALL my telecommunication connections will b