Sunday, February 28, 2010

In which Paul Krugman proves he is an academic snob who argues from his prejudice rather than the data

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Felix Salmon has a lovely post where he picks apart the news values of the Wall Street Journal – including picking apart differences betwee...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Submission to the Cooper Review of Superannuation

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I have written a submission to the Cooper Review of Superannuation (that is privatized social security) in Australia.  You can find it he...
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Monday, February 22, 2010

Weekend edition: an old Astarra marketing leaflet – and some comment on Astarra’s very peculiar asset base

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The Astarra funds were amongst the top performing sold retail in Australia.  According to the advert below it is because of market timing....
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Friday, February 19, 2010

Surprise: Peter Johnston still has not taken my bet…

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Nobody has taken my bet . But another fund manager across town is offering a derivative bet (in smaller denomination) that nobody will.  A...
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

My proposed bet with Peter Johnston from the Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners: an Astarra follow up

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The Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners is a rival to Financial Planning Australia as an umbrella group for financial pl...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The final failure of the Meiji right-wing ideology … Japan fades into the future with a walking stick…

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This blog does not usually play war with other bloggers – but something in Ampontan’s criticism of me has got my goat.  So if you do not wa...
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

A Morphology of the Sin of Bad Lending

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Grace – it is said – refers to a Single State only – whereas Sin refers to a multitude.  Good Lending – like a State of Grace – is hard to m...
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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Globalizing the Australian Intergenerational Report – thinking about long term sovereign solvency in Australia, the US, New Zealand, Japan and China

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In the financial crisis governments seemingly regularly guaranteed their banks to stop their banks from collapse. This worked in preventing ...
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Friday, January 22, 2010

What is proprietary trading?

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Somewhere in the debate about prohibiting proprietary trading in certain banks we will need a decent understanding of what proprietary tradi...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The sweetest usurious bastards

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A long while ago I did some work on Rent-A-Center – a company in the difficult and arguably immoral business of “rent-to-buy”.  Rent-to-buy...
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