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Last week I started a Sky Media Buzzword Bingo with my wife. You cross off the words on the card as the presenter says them and the first to get a complete line wins. Consists of the usual standards - Woke, Lefty, The Left, Pronouns*, The Greens, China, The ABC, Trump, Biden, Identity politics...

They've even got "Illegal activities" covered.

What's the joke? I just see a dad trying to be a good parent to a baby.

Noting of course that true privatisation doesn't include monopoly clauses or strictly regulated prices and conditions. Last year's Wesconnex sale had a clause that built in that mandated toll increases by the minimum of 4% a year or CPI, whichever was larger. WTF?!?

See the Utopia episode on this (Season 3 - Clause For Concern I think).

This probably sounds complicated, but over the years I've leant towards things that are priced between 1-4 days of the median Australian wage (assuming a 5-day work week) - with me leaning toward 1-2 days for silver and 3-4 days for gold. Premiums are typically reasonable and they (generally)...

Awesome. I so want my restaurant to have these.

BTW The amount of arable land isn't a fixed quantity. Australia arable land in: - 1961 = 3.929% - 2015 = 6.004% Israel arable land in: - 1961 = 14.695% - 2015 = 13.734% World arable land in: - 1961 = 9.693% - 2015 = 10.991% Source: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.ARBL.ZS

Yeah. In the ACT's case it's because the parasites can only suck so much blood from the rest of the country before the host starts to die.

Lots of great content throughout but I like the section at 45mins till about 49mins.

Theoretically, yes. Borrowers win and lenders lose due to a hyperinflationary event, particularly borrowers on fixed interest loans. The catch is that you'll have to be in a position to repay your outstanding mortgage when the time comes. Some considerations: 1. Initially the bank's interest...

Worth noting that although a depreciated US dollar will theoretically be good for exports it won't be good for the average US citizen as it will kill their purchasing power. See THIS THREAD

Yes. Goods primarily made in the USA will be cheaper for non-US people (noting that many goods have complex supply chains with components made in multiple countries nowadays). Imports for people using US-denominated currency will be more expensive.

M2 is a common go to measure of money supply which includes the bank deposits (easily found via google). TMS (or true money supply) is a slightly different measure that is argued to be more accurate but unfortunately hasn't had as many people producing the relevant time series (although it can...

2% vacancy rate is generally regarding as a tight rental market whether there are 20 places available in a suburb with 1,000 rentals or 200 rentals available in a suburb with 10,000 rentals. The denominator matters.