by Jim Ball | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog, The Economy |
Everyone needs to read this — It is no exaggeration to say that we are on the road to Greece. An extract from Nick Caters column in today’s Australian, The Future We Cannot Afford “….The proportion of the population who work and pay tax is...
by Jim Ball | Mar 27, 2017 | Blog, Random Notes, The Economy |
Because of the plethora of independents and unrealistic, wreckers, vandals and dreamers like the Greens and single issue parties on the cross benches who will just continue to block and indulge in their fantasies, wet dreams and politics of obstruction, the only...
by Jim Ball | Mar 8, 2017 | Blog, Ponzie Scheme, Random Notes, The Economy |
Random Note 199,653 It’s interesting to compare Paul Kelly’s Saturday column with the observations of Adam Creighton’s Monday column (both in The Australian) and it strikes me that what Adam Creighton is describing with our year on year economic...
by Jim Ball | Dec 9, 2016 | Blog, Economy, The Economy |
Tell us something we don’t know….AND we’re still borrowing $100 million A DAY to prop up this fiction. Australia’s gone from the envied, trophy economy of the world with a budget surplus and billions in the bank, to having the fastest growing...
by Jim Ball | Oct 8, 2016 | Blog, Free Trade, The Economy |
Friday October 7, 2016 was the end of the road for Ford in Australia. I wrote earlier this week that; “..upon signing, the various free trade deals, we always hear about the upside and all the benefits. They sell the idea of free trade and the upside as opening...
by Jim Ball | Jun 3, 2016 | Blog, Random Notes, The Economy
The Style Council were an 80’s band from the UK. A bit of fluff. But the Diversity Council in Australia in 2016 is an entirely different beast. What self respecting person would lend their professional integrity to such a dangerous, Orwellian sounding quango?...
