Blackrock has lodged its 2023 annual report with the US securities exchange this week. It contains an interesting disclosure.
Continue readingInflation bulletin
Stock markets have been pricing in the anticipated end of inflation for the last little while. Is Mr Market right?
Continue readingBP – back to petroleum
It must be around 20 or 25 years ago that BP rebranded itself: Beyond Petroleum. Remember?
Continue readingParody accounts
The best parody accounts are those that leftists don’t recognise as parody. They get fooled.
Continue readingThat must have Hert(z)
Update: Hertz announced on March 15, 2024 that that the CEO was being replaced, effective March 31. Another idiot bites the dust, but not before trashing a big chunk of shareholder funds.
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I am not a shareholder of the Hertz Inc car rental company. Fortunately. For I think Hertz shareholders have every right to be thoroughly disappointed in the Board.
Continue readingThe hour is come
Is it possible that Australia has an energy system that is unfit for purpose?
Continue readingLCD screens are tough
Who knew? Bake it. If that doesn’t work, freeze it.
Continue readingWhat’s happening to the US dollar?
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.
Continue readingCorporate cowardice or ignorance? And a bonus: the origin of the term ‘woke’
“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.
Continue readingYemeni terrorists set back the clocks by 150 years
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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