Saul Eslake

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 [...]

In the United States there’s an ‘End the Fed’ movement. It’s a group of people who as a minimum would like to see the Federal Reserve audited, but at best would like the whole darn thing abolished.
It’s gained quite a following among those who believe in ‘Sound Money’ rather than fake paper or plastic [...]

“You’ll like this” Daily Reckoning editor Dan Denning smiled last Thursday as he lightly dropped onto our desk a print out of former ANZ chief economist Saul Eslake’s article from The Age.
“Debt won’t ‘roon’ us” was Saul’s headline.
Actually, he’s wrong. Because it will impoverish everyone.
Even those without debt. But I’ll explain all that [...]