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:

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
'WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES' - My Say No 38
13-10-2008 10:48:18
What a difference a day makes!

London Evening Standard, Thursday 25th September 2008; "BAILOUT HOPE BOOSTS SHARES"
London Evening Standard, Friday 26th September 2008; "BAILOUT CHAOS HITS THE CITY"

It has been an instructive few weeks for me. ...more
'ONE SWALLOW DOES NOT A SUMMER MAKE' - My Say No 37
19-07-2008 18:24:56
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and miseries" (Julius Caesar Act 4).

Please forgive the rather pretentious beginning to this edition ...more