Weatherman Economics

More sackcloth and ashes stuff concerning employment data in today’s AFR, including the strident by-line “Swan’s maths are a mess when it co...

Ever since the GFC hit in '08, the Dix Index (a measure of the extent to which the Weatherman's panel of economists agree on the the...

Yet more financial services / rock climbing linkages, this time with Ernst & Young stretching the point with this graphic: It’s a my...

Some time ago I posed a question about why the Australian Office of Financial Management would want to include low doc loans in its purchase...

Following on from his recent " glass half full ” speech the RBA Governor Glen Stevens recently gave a talk entitled " The Lucky Co...

This article from a Microsoft researcher poses an interesting question: why do Nigerian scammers say they’re from Nigeria?  It’s such an i...

The OECD has a great website here that ranks countries by various health and wellbeing indicators like housing, education, jobs, health car...

Mark the ABC news story below.  Headline says “Banks lifted rates to bolster profits: RBA”.  Story says “Banks didn’t lift rates to bolster ...

Cranfield’s use of climbing imagery to promote its MBA program ("...get to the top in today's business environment...") misfi...

Adelaide’s Sunday Mail reports today that average house prices in the leafy inner-east suburb of College Park are about to hit $2m. The Mail...