SuperTed, what has buying or selling the farm got to do with a budget surplus or deficit?

In your Economics 101 textbook you will see that deficit has its economic place (e.g. to stimulate and economy) – contrary to the Costello line that it is the root of all evil. It’s just that right now, we don’t need the stimulus and people swallow the “Defecit = Bad; Surplus = Good” line that the Coalition use because it suits them politically.

In chapter two of that text, you will find a synopsis that will demonstrate that the macroeconomic environment when CBA was sold was very different to the one when Telstra was sold. A lot of this is cyclical – and cyclical for reasons outside of Australia’s direct control.

The issue of who is the better economic manager is more complex than simply looking at the last few years of what has globally been largely a positive economic period.

Even Pauline Hanson’s 1% tax would have worked for a while when things are good. Are you going to argue that she’s a good economic manager?

Summo. Out from the cold you come with “forum spam”. At least something is happening in Adelaide, I suppose.

PPOR = Principal place of residence (Home!)

I’m with CGU and the only complaint I have is that it’s a pain to make a payment (you need to call a Brisbane number during business hours).

(I know that’s not directly related to the cover itself, though, but it’s all part of the “relationship”.)

SIS, there ain’t a lot to defend when a cost of living debate comes around!

There’s an article in today’s SMH that suggests that 50% of emails in the US are “spam”. It even quotes a couple of spammers who say that they get anything from a 1% – 7% response rate (!). That’s a lot of enhanced equipment in the Land of the Free!

One of the “legitimate spammers” (another of life’s great oxymorons) claims to turnover $2 million per month.

That’s it. I’m selling my IPs and going into spam.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/11/1078594500601.html

My boss will kill me re the time it takes to get this working!

The name of the game is maximising serviceable exposure through equity and minimising non-deductible debt.

I fear that the effect would be two smooth bits on an otherwise rumpled shirt.

Thanks qwerty – that’s just reminded me!

I knew the engineers had put it down to something (re my post above), and I knew it wasn’t mine subsidence.

Clay content was it for my parents, too.