by Jim Ball | Apr 4, 2020 | Blog, Coronavirus, Democrats, Random Notes |
The Democrats are starting up with another inquiry with the working title: ‘What did Trump know and when did he know it’. It’s timeline politics. When Trump cancelled direct flights out of China on January 31st, he was being a scaremongering racist. He was even...
by Jim Ball | Apr 4, 2020 | Blog, Coronavirus, Random Notes |
I think that many people are rapidly coming to the view that this economy crushing, totally impractical over reaction and panicked response to the Coronavirus is very much haphazard, make it up as you go, ill-conceived and hasn’t been thought through. No doubt the...
by Jim Ball | Apr 3, 2020 | Blog, Coronavirus, Economy, Random Notes |
There are 25 million Australians with skin in the game over Coronavirus. The entire nation, all 25 million of us, are affected to a greater or lesser extent but what’s the bet that when it comes to analysing how we got to where we are, vis a vis the adherence to the...
by Jim Ball | Apr 3, 2020 | Blog, Coronavirus, Random Notes |
It would be an interesting exercise in the middle of the Corona crisis if one media outlet carried nothing at all about the Coronavirus. Absolutely nothing. What would fill their bulletins? Other ‘normal’ news must be happening as it does on any given day, but with...
by Jim Ball | Mar 30, 2020 | Blog, Coronavirus, Random Notes |
It is said with many variations, that sometimes, the cost of doing nothing is far greater than the cost of actually doing something. This is one of those times Apart from dealing with the macro like for example the rules pertaining to foreign investment...
by Jim Ball | Mar 27, 2020 | Blog, Cultural Marxism, Culture, Random Notes |
It’s impossible not to agree with Greg Sheridan’s overall thesis, but much of the problem he identifies with Western society and culture stems from leadership in recent decades that time and again has proven itself to be both dishonest, incompetent and incurious....
