A wonderfully short but concise article on gambling in australia.
I still remember the furore created by the productivity commision when they showed those businesses which had poker machines relied on problem gamblers to make money.
It would be great if Aussies realised gambling is a sin!!
Sorry but I am going to ignore a person's death.
Trump has made threats of sacking the Chairman of the Fed. As you might expect Kruggers is on it.
My small contribution is simply look at what turkey tried ( Kruggers talks about it).
Trump says prices are falling not rising. This is dumb. He is either quite mad or deliberately lying about the current situation.
either way markets are very scared. My best guess is if Trump sacked Powell. He clearly does not have the law on his side but as we see they does not stop him and by the time the Courts decide it is too late.
The sharemarket would fall, bond yields would rise and the $US would also fall.
Combine that with ihs insane tariff policy and there is a very good reason to be scared
Handel wrote the only oratio I ever liked and Unto us a child is born was brilliant. the words are from Isaiah.
I do think this is the best version.
It is time for Around the Traps again.
Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy
OZ Climate
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Europe
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Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)
Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)
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The UK Supreme Court on who is a woman. They clearly ( and unanimously) agreed on who is a woman BUT also said you could not discriminate against transgender people in general.
It is entirely sensible and should prove to be the harbinger of other courts around the world.
Isn't it wonderful to have some rationality and common sense at present?
Yesterday we saw the President of El Salvador at the white house. The man whom the Administration admit was sent to El Salvador in error wil lnot be coming back.
Trump is defying the supreme court and they will not have the spine to insist on their ruling.
No-one in the Trump administration will lift a finger to help this innocent man. They sacked the lawyer who said this!! ( An immigration ruled he was NOT a member of any gang ( he had never been to New York) and indeed was in fear of his life if he was sent back to El Salvador because of said gangs. We have seen with this administration they can bring back people to the USA if they WANT to.
As I said recently they will not do this because their actions are applauded by their maga base and it sends an example to all undocumented immigrants.
Now I tend to think all those legal immigrants who voted for Trump because he was only going after murderers and rapists are starting to realise they were wood-ducks. This was the only issue he was popular on and now this is starting to slip as more and more people start to realise the incompetence involved and it involves no due process.
I entirely agree with Noah Smith!
Last week we had a 'debate' between Albo and Dutton on Sky news.
the Sky after dark pundits all said Dutton won easily however the audicience made up of undecided voters believed otherwise. ( We must state there were a lot of people who said neither).
So the Sky after dark pundits immediately said the undecided voters were not undecided at all but essentially a biased audacious favouring the ALP.
There was absolutely no evidence for their assertions. Please note a couple of things. Firstly debates rarely determine elections. Secondly who 'won' a 'debate' is merely an opinion. Thirdly Sky news paid a polling firm to have an audience of 100 undecided voters.
It never occured to the Sky after dark pundits that their view was biased because they want the LNP to win the election. It thus also never occurred to them that they not the audience got it wrong. The problem here would be losing any reputation when ti some to politics!
When you are as old as I am you have seen this before. in 1984 Hawke 'debated ' Peacock and I still remember Paul Kelly waxing lyrically on Hawke had bested Peacock. the only problem was when polls later found the complete opposite. This again found no mea culpa on Kelly's part. He , like the Sky after dark clowns, knew better than the punters.
Oh dear the times simply never change.
