Well, it appears the struggling, lowest level of society has now been exposed a number of times by front page exposure. Carbon tax, reduced welfare payments etc. all seem apocalyptic to these $150K+ income households!
Bank fee whinging – A published SMH letter
Nov 14th, 2010
Letter in the SMH on the whinging about unfair mortgage exit fees and politicians falling over themselves to yell at banks.
North Koreans limited to US$740 life savings!
Dec 9th, 2009
The North Korean government fires another salvo into its own population in the form of a currency re-valuation with a limit per person.
What value do insurers add to US healthcare?
Sep 14th, 2009
Isn’t this just the biggest question no one seems to have an answer for? What value do insurers add to the health system in the USA? They have tens of thousands of people lobbying to pretending they add value. The answer seems to be: “nothing good”. They are an unnecessary level of proxy between person [...]
The credit crisis in pretty pictures and animations
Mar 12th, 2009
Pictures work better than the endless stream of disjoint articles on how screwed the financial market is. Here’s my pick on various people’s visual explanation of how greed/stupidity got us where we are now.
The world isn’t very global – part 1 – Bank stuff
Feb 4th, 2009
Moving to another country is hard. It shouldn’t be, but it is. I look at the ways the world is generally pretty god awful in this respect. Tips to beat the system at the end.
