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Wedding Madness

Weddings - lovely days that cost a bomb!... Weddings are always a blast (in my opinion) and this past weekend saw my first, and oldest, friend g...
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Suicidal Genius

A few words on the economics of class warfare.... The current state of politics in America is based on a policy that, empirically, will destroy the co...
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Chris and Kate - The Queensland Elections

Chris and Kate are mother and daughter. Chris writes to Kate while she is visiting in the US and pon... Hi Katie, I miss you soooo much. Hope America is making more sense than it does here. How’s ...
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Buttermilk meets The Wire

Nothing like a bustling free market economy to perk up a flagging armchair economist on a friday nig... I don’t expect sympathy. Life is hard for everyone. I know that. So my explaining about how...
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Decision making made simple

A few words on decisions.... So my brother is wrestling with a significant decision. To retire or not to retire? I went through t...
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Traveling with a DSLR - What Lenses to Take

What lenses to take traveling and how to get them around.... What camera gear is best for traveling? This is a question that's been asked for many a year by digi...
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Using kids as conduits

Ahhh kids. They have so many uses...cleaners, cups of tea-makers and mediators in family disputes.... Is it wrong to use your children to fetch you stuff, make you cuppas, do the chores you don’t ...
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Recession: So Who's Fault is it Anyway?

Many of us are convinced the bankers are entirely to blame for our economic woes. If most of the med... As politicians and their PR advisers beaver away to claim the moral high ground in the economic melt...
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Buzz words, credibility and wordiness

The wordiness, credibility and confusing economic comments in the AFR... ”Buzz words”, acronyms, credibility and wordiness have given good cause for people to to...
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Location

It matters.... During one of our many Real Estate bubbles in the USA, “Location, Location, Location” wa...
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