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The social engineers are in full flight. Now Australia has a Population Minister. We prefer to label it the “Population Sinister”, or even the “Population Tsar.” Of course, this isn’t the first time politicians have tried to manipulate the make-up of the population.
The most recent before this is probably ex-Treasurer Peter Costello’s [...]

Before we get on to today’s Money Morning, this…
“The 2010 Walkley Award goes to… Jason Clout, for the Australian Financial Review’s ‘Rear Window’ column.”
That would be the result if your editor had, a) any influence over the award, and b) any interest in having any influence over the award.
In last Friday’s Money Morning we wrote:
“Let’s [...]

This morning we’re still chuckling away at Christopher Joye’s ‘revelation’ about the stock market being risky – 11.6 times riskier than cash apparently. Bless him.
We’re looking forward to his next bombshell. Maybe he’ll reveal to the world that water is wet! What? It is? [Shae, quick, get Einstein, Newton and [...]

Before we get on to today’s Money Morning, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to scoff at the further incompetence of government.
As you know, the federal government has spent billions on the stimulus package on the justification it will ‘create’ jobs. Well, now the insulation debacle has been cancelled, what else would a free-spending [...]

We’ll poke a stick at property and inflation today.
Inflation, if mixed with deflation is fine. Prices rise, then prices fall.
But inflation by itself, well, that isn’t good at all. If you look at the chart below, you can see perfectly how the value of money has been devalued almost without break for the [...]

In today’s Money Morning we’ll give the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) a major serve. But before that, it’s appropriate to let you know about Jarrod and Seb’s next protest at the RBA.
Jarrod says they will be out the front of the RBA building at Martin Place in Sydney this Friday between 8am and [...]

We noticed with amusement Emperor Ken Henry’s statement that: “What people have called the global financial crisis, that has passed, I think it’s safe to say.”
It’s pretty easy to say that when you’re a career leach. Sorry, we mean public servant… No, actually, we do mean ‘leach’ after all.
On reading those words from Emperor [...]

You can read the official press release from yesterday’s Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board meeting here.
In a couple of weeks the RBA will release the full minutes of the meeting. If the official version is anything like the previous versions it will mention international economic conditions, domestic economic conditions, financial markets, and considerations [...]

Before I get on to today’s Money Morning, we’ve received some feedback from yesterday’s article. The complaint has been that we didn’t compare apples with apples.
That it’s not fair to compare the return of a leveraged investment property with an unleveraged dividend paying stock.
Of course that’s nonsense. Of course it’s fair. As [...]

We may have covered this subject before, so apologies in advance if we’re repeating ourselves.
However, it’s easier for us to just bang out 1,500 words than it is to trawl through the archive to check up what we’ve written about previously.
We did used to have a little spreadsheet where we would note the topic of [...]