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October 3, 2023
The ultimate purpose of the National Day, for example, will be for young people to set goals that they believe are important to help inspire, motivate and support them rise above their circumstances on the path to self-reliance.
October 3, 2023
Self-reliance is defined as the ability to rely on oneself and one's own abilities, rather than relying on others or external resources. It is the ability to be self-sufficient and independent, both emotionally and financially.
October 3, 2023
The 5 Pillars provide an excellent guide for developing educational resources and experiences for helping young people become self-reliant.
October 2, 2023
A self-reliance matrix is a tool that can help individuals, in this case young people, assess their level of self-reliance and identify areas for improvement.
December 17, 2020
Protectionism. Protectionism is the economic policy of restricting imports from other countries through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, import quotas, and a variety […]
December 17, 2020
Background. There are three foundation stones to investing. For simplicity let’s call them Saving, Structure, Rate of Return. There are three major expenses in your […]
December 17, 2020
I feel for John Maynard Keynes these days. New age economists seem to want to take pot shots at someone who lived in an entirely […]
December 17, 2020
Just over 100 years ago the average western family had 8 children and the parents were survived by two children. Two things happened, antibiotics were […]
December 17, 2020
Background. Australia was built on small business starting from the convict days and the free settlers. Settlers were given parcels of land and made their […]
December 17, 2020
When embarking on a goal, one of the first things you need to do is evaluate your resources. I remember the old MacGyver series on […]
December 17, 2020
We have talked about Pareto and the fact that 80% of the wealth ends up with 20% of the population. Superimposed on that is that […]
December 17, 2020
Economic Rationalisation and Globalisation were sold with the concept of removal of all tariffs in the economic environment of a level playing field. The rhetoric […]
December 17, 2020
Every major disruption or crisis results in the redistribution of wealth. There are always winners and losers. Before we discuss the winners and losers, we […]
December 17, 2020
What is risk in a financial sense? For a technical definition there are many sources you can use such as Investopedia. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/risk.asp Type of Risk. […]
December 17, 2020
When I hear someone entering the IR debate with the rider that nobody should be worse off I wonder how our education has changed in […]
December 17, 2020
There are eleven hurdles that must be jumped if Australia is going to move towards some sort of self-reliance by Manufacturing. First margin. The culture […]
December 17, 2020
The first premise of the socialist is that neither Pareto or Matthew exist, and that leads to a belief that if you have a great […]
December 16, 2020
Has the Market Economy Failed? Questions have been continually made about the failure of the market economy. To make sense of the question we need […]
December 16, 2020
Background. Over the whole of the twentieth Century there were economic discussions as to how government can guide the economy. At one end of the […]
December 16, 2020
Over the last 150 years the economy has become a lot more complex and therefore harder to control. It’s almost that as soon as we […]
December 16, 2020
I find this chapter too wonky, his words, so I have tried to summarise it. Money has two functions: As a medium of exchange. As […]
December 16, 2020
The worldwide pandemic has been the catalyst for a number of economic changes that we have been marching toward for the last two decades. The […]
December 16, 2020
As usual I would ask what is the problem. If we are to debate self-sufficiency per se, then the discussion is black and white. I […]
December 16, 2020
I do apologise for the length of this answer but it is something I have been wrestling with for a couple of years, and this […]
December 16, 2020
Two things are evident: The first is that thousands of years of experience has proved that you cannot regulate against poor behaviour. The tragedy in […]
December 16, 2020
The RBA Governor says we need to stimulate the economy by continuing to lower interest rates and maybe through QE. Some senior CEO’s advocate for […]
December 16, 2020
Last night I read Cian’s letter before lights out, I felt good. I woke the next morning to read Paul Kelly and thought I had […]
December 16, 2020
One of my theses is that often we solve the wrong problem. Defining the problem is often the hardest part of the problem solving procedure. […]
December 15, 2020
We have been talking about self-reliance; reliance on one’s own powers and resources rather than those of others, and I have come to the conclusion […]