What I do for a living to afford a Lamborghini
Different messenger – same message, get off your arse, be responsible. All the things people don’t want to hear.
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Predictions From The RBA
Whilst puddling around today I heard on the radio that Glenn Stevens the head of the RBA had issued a dire warning for just about everything. I have to admit I wasn’t paying attention because this is the same group that has predicted 17 of our past 3 recessions but I decided to look up…
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Buy NAB
I recently received an email from someone who should have known better because attached to the email was a brokers report. The report told me I should buy NAB because it had under performed its counterparts. So not being one to take anything a broker says at face value I decided to check for myself.…
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That’s So Random: Why We Persist in Seeing Streaks
This piece coincides nicely with a book I have just finished reading called The Importability Principle by David J Hand which disappointingly is actually quite dull. Although it does do a good job of explaining the inevitability of single people winning lotteries multiple times. Get enough people doing the same thing for long enough and…
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I Am A Winner
I have gotten a few of these in the past few days – they seem to be slipping through the old spam filter. Clearly as a business idea this sort of thing works, otherwise they wouldn’t do it.
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The World Cup Continues
I love a bit of data analysis.
Why not even exercise will undo the harm of sitting all day
A large review recently published in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute confirms what we’ve been hearing for years: Sitting can be fatal. It’s been linked to cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. In this latest meta-analysis, Daniela Schmid and Michael F. Leitzmann of the University of Regensburg in Germany analyzed 43 observational studies, amounting to more than 4 million people’s answers to questions…
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