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Month: December 2023

LCD screens are tough

29 December 2023 AustralianActuary Life

Who knew? Bake it. If that doesn’t work, freeze it.

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What’s happening to the US dollar?

28 December 202328 December 2023 AustralianActuary Economics banking, gold, inflation

In a break from my Australian inflation bulletins, let’s take a look at the US. What is happening to the mighty dollar? In short, it is unhealthy.

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Corporate cowardice or ignorance? And a bonus: the origin of the term ‘woke’

24 December 202324 December 2023 AustralianActuary Business, Life banking, CEOs, Diversity, Language, Totalitarianism

“Is business getting the balance right between investor, customer and other stakeholder demands when it comes to ESG issues?” The question could have been loaded. But it wasn’t.

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Yemeni terrorists set back the clocks by 150 years

20 December 2023 AustralianActuary Life #Energy, risk, trade, war

Twiddling the clocks is normally limited to a 1 hour shift, either forward or back, near the equinoxes. Even then, not all countries, states and territories follow the practice. But now, we have been exposed as amateurs by the Houthi terrorists from Yemen.

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Aviva CEO with too much time on her hands

20 December 2023 AustralianActuary Business CEOs

Aviva is a financial services firm. Its CEO is Amanda Blanc. She must have nothing to do. If so, the firm, its investors, clients and staff would be better off if Amanda just admitted it and disappeared.

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Grift or Satire?

19 December 202319 December 2023 AustralianActuary Life ESG, FossilFuels, weather

My mind is unclear on this point. Grift means to obtain money illicitly. Satire is to expose foolishness using irony or humour. PLOS One has published a paper that is one or the other, but I genuinely can’t tell which.

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Don’t just stand there – delete something!

19 December 202319 December 2023 AustralianActuary Economics regulation

Javier Milei is off to a great start. So refreshing.

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