Buggered if I know…

Use to be a time when the letters ‘QE’ were reserved for the grand lady, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the II.
Latterly they have been adopted as an acronym by economic commentators as short hand for the monetary policy action called Quantitative Easing. Now - monetary policy, fiscal policy, and the like, are only terms understood [...]

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“We hear you Tranquillity Base, let’s solve it by borrowing more money…”
Is this the madness we are currently seeing?
I must disclose that I saw/heard some commentator make the very tongue in cheek observation that went something like:
“isn’t this clever - the original problem was caused by debt - so lets borrow more money to fix [...]

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As I sit here quietly I cant help but be infected by the happiness I feel from, and for, Australians as a landslide victory is inevitable for the Australian Labor Party.
This is not anything to do with my own political colour - I have written elsewhere publicly that I have no in-built bias either way [...]

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All the hype was actually a bit of a misnomer - what actually exists, and has just been released as a Software Development Kit (SDK, via Google OS), is an open source development platform for Mobile Phones created by Google called Android.

We may finally be able to do something useful with mobile phones…
Is this important? [...]

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Just in case you haven’t understood (and, presuming, you give a hoot) the sub-prime mortgage (meat?) market here’s a piece which might explain it by John Fortune & John Bird…

All clear now?

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Blog Action Day aims to get everybody blogging about the environment today, 15 Oct.
So, something which caught my eye on TV the other day was that, apparently large areas of Borneo and Sumatra native forest is being clear-felled and burnt. Why? To plant palm crops for profit - to supply the increasing demand for [...]

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I’m glad an Australian started this - Free Hugs Campaign.

I do hope the Internet and related technologies help transform the way we exist as societies.
Like Peace One Day…
Or, am I just being naive?
Buggered if I know…

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Boing Boing is reporting that the Canadian federal government, via their mint, is demanding that the city of Toronto pay nearly 50,000 bucks in royalties for using the word ‘one cent’ and images of the Canadian one cent piece in their campaign to lobby the federal government for a bigger piece of the GST pie.
Given [...]

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The Herald Sun today splashed this title
“Fun-loving man, 50, seeks country”
on an article about Peter Costello, current federal treasurer, and PM elect - should the liberal coalition be returned to power this election.
In a related article at wikinews Costello is quoted:
“I would say an election is not over until all of the votes have been [...]

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Apparently North Korea has agreed to disable its main nuclear reactor.
I also heard on the news last night that the US is willing to make a deal with North Korea, roughly:
“You disable all your nuclear weapons and we’ll remove you from the ’states sponsoring terrorism’ list”
So if you have nuclear weapons you’re a state sponsoring [...]

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