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A Courier-mail stew: Shakespeare, the Bible and Kyle Sandilands

August 8, 2009 – 8:26 am

The Courier-mail’s Dianne Butler begins her piece today on Sandilands’ early exit from Australian idol with this extraordianry concoction of misattributed and unattributed quotes:
LIVE by the sword, die by the sword, as Hamlet used to say. On the other hand, truth is beauty, beauty truth and that’s all you need to know.
The first bit, of [...]

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green shoots, frosts, bears, bulls, seeds, logs, fires – omg

April 16, 2009 – 5:25 pm

The recovery may be just as nerve-wracking as the dark octobber days:
Nothing sows the seeds of doubt in the minds of money managers quite like a bear market rally. Thoughts like, “Is the bottom in?”, and “Am I missing a once in a generation buying opportunity at the beginning of a great new bull market?” [...]

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Let the market fix the car industry

November 20, 2008 – 8:01 am

The US and Australian Governments are being stood-over by an incompetent car industry. The US auto industry wants a quick $US25 billion or, they reckon, the US economy will be completely stuffed:
“It’s about saving the US economy from a catastrophic collapse,” GM chairman Rick Wagoner told the Senate Banking Committee.
Very public spirited! Nothing to do with covering [...]

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