Last night was trivia night in Elwood. Your editor sat across from Australian Wealth Gameplan editor Kris Sayce. Between questions about how many venomous snakes there are in Australia and whether New South Wales is larger than South Australia (it’s not), we found the time to query him about whether buying inflation indexed bonds from the Australian government was a good investment strategy.
August 14th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Debt Summit"
Sometimes Technical Analysis Sounds Like a Foreign Language
Your editor does not pick up foreign languages easily. But just for grins, we asked Gabriel to try his technical speak on the CRB commodities index. It’s been up, then way down, then back up. We wondered-all the fundamentals of supply, demand, growth, and recession aside-what the index looks like to trader with an eye for patterns and mind full of oscillators.
August 5th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 22 comments | Continued
David Murray Says You Become Dependent on Global Banks When Importing Capital
There we were watching Lateline, waiting for the rain to stop at Edgbaston so the cricket could begin, when David Murray, Chairman of Australia’s Future Fund, began making so much sense we could hardly write it down fast enough. And it wasn’t his comments about buying non-government guaranteed corporate debt that got us so excited.
July 31st, 2009 | Dan Denning | 18 comments | Continued
Glenn Stevens Says Australia’s Economy Has Been Travelling Better Than Others
We’ll see about that. Stocks are certainly pricing in a profit recovery (about which we have our doubts). But Mr. Stevens also had a bit to say about credit markets and balance sheets, in comments that were not as widely reported as his comments on Australian housing. More on housing in a second.
July 29th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 25 comments | Continued
Corporate Debt is Just One Aspect of the National Debt Problem
The wheels are in motion for Friday’s Debt Summit at the State Library of Victoria. Today’s Australian reports that corporate Australia, “is sitting on a $200 billion debt bomb that needs to be refinanced over the next three years…
July 27th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
