John Cage wrote:

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas.
I'm frightened of the old ones.

Here are a few of mine:

YOUR CAVE OR MINE? - My Say No 43

13-10-2011 19:01:19

I'm back!

No excuse just frustrated with the endless commentary and mindless herd reaction to events over the recent past. Does anyone else share my dismay at the daily diet of; 'market rises after meeting of European ministers to resolve the Gre ...more

OMG - My Say No 42

14-11-2010 20:34:01

I have been taken to task recently by a number of readers and am ashamed to admit that it is some months now since the last newsletter. I have been quite 'turned off' by all that has been going on of late and had thus focussed my attention elsewhere ...more

IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME - My Say No 41

21-12-2009 11:34:05

I do appear to have been rather slack putting digit to keyboard this year but in more ways than one it has been rather busier than I had expected. The 'GFC' and subsequent increase in presentations merely compounded an already busy personal schedule ...more

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR! - My Say No 40

02-07-2009 16:36:13

In 2004 I wrote a newsletter titled "Crash Test Dummies" in which I painted what was, at the time, an imaginary and rather apocalyptic scenario. Share markets had fallen sharply, CBA shares had fallen to $18.00 and they had cut their dividend. Two co ...more

'QUE SERA, SERA'- My Say No 39

25-01-2009 14:33:23

"Confidence is in remarkably short supply. Investors lack it. Businesses and consumers appear to have lost it completely. Governments are still searching for it in vain." (AFR 16th January 2009)

All this talk of a 'financial crisis' when in fact i ...more