Comfort with Money

The economic and environmental costs of the “cheap” electricity that’s produced by wind, water or the sun – without burning a single ounce of coal which creates all that CO2 that trees rely on for a healthy life - will continue to be argued about for the lifetime, I suspect, of your grandchildren who aren’t yet of school age. I hope my solar cells withstand the next hailstorm that attacks my roof and I do have feelings of regret for the number of dead birds that are killed in

In this instance I won’t argue about the amount of assets or income (or both) that bestow the millionaire label but I think that those of us who don't have a lot of either would agree that a real millionaire has an awful lot of both. I never cease to be amazed at the automatic response by some people to the question “Who wants to be a millionaire?” is “Everyone!” This is simply not the case. Having a very large asset backing (including money in the bank) should bring with i

A recent newspaper item about the cost of Covid-19 to Australian businesses highlighted the fact that Flight Centre had “lost” $20 billion. Poets would welcome the chance to write lines where “cost” and “lost” are rhymed. In this case the newspaper took considerable poetic licence. As Flight Centre is valued at about $5 billion, I’m not sure where it got that extra $15 billion that it could “lose”. Of course any travel company, even one as good as Flight Centre, will face tou