“Society is just too lenient. Steal money and you get ten years, kill someone and get off with 3-5 years.”

Actually thats not true. Offences against the person, robbery and drug offences have increased as a proportion of prisoners from 51% in 1988 to 57% in 1998. Both the average sentence length and the average length of stay have increased for…[Read more]

Financial position: Sallary: $65k

Investment Property 1: Negitive Geared. Owe:$112k
Rent: $155 pw
Value: $150-$160k

Investiment Property 2: Negitive Geared: Owe:$133k
Rent: $215 pw
Value: $210-220k

Live in Government housing rent free,

Now I know why I pay so much tax

This speech is actually a hoax, it was never made by Gates. It’s an excerpt from the book “Dumbing Down our Kids” by educator Charles Sykes.

“Firstly, he has chased away the Taliban who were protecting and supporting the Osama Bin laden mob”.

So that would explain why they have managed to capture Bun Laden and why the Taliban still control portions of Afghanisatn

Secondly, eventually there will be a democratic
government in Afghanistan, a moderate one like Turkey perhaps ?

So the…[Read more]

“Hypoglycemia is seen as the starting point for a discussion on nutritional disorders underlying
most degenerative diseases and mental disorders.”

By who?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1175070,00.html

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Interesting, people want their children to get the best education but no one is willing to pay for it. A very strange paradox. In fact there seems to be a tone among some of you that teachers should work for free.

Its also strange that people on a website dedicated to wealth creation complain about others wanting to undertake wealth creation in…[Read more]

Absolute bollocks………in medical circles this is up there with the urban myth of individuals on holiday who wake up to find their kidneys removed.

In decades of being involved with trauma medicine I have never once seen or heard of a case where someone who was an organ donor was simply left to die because they could be harvested.

Before you…[Read more]

Crashy you seem to be a very touchy individual, I will put this down to your inexperience and desperate desire to prove yourself. Which in turn is perhaps a reflection of your current unemployment.

This is also evidenced by the aggression you show on other parts of the forum ot ideas you struggle with.

With regard to Buffett there is no…[Read more]

Whilst I dont know much about Jan Somers her figures on the long term rate of return of the market is near enough.

The US Centre of National Policy analysed the returns available from the S&P500 which is roughly analagous to our All Ordinaries. What they found was that between 1961 and 2002 was 7.3%. The average return between 1872 and 2000 was…[Read more]

Hi Guys long time lurker first time poster, it has been fascinating watching the interaction and enthusiam of people as they explore wealth creation.

I must admit I dont know much about property, in fact what I know about it could be written on the head of a pin.

However, I have been a professional trader for almost three decades, I started…[Read more]