… and let’s push this thing down the hill.
One thing history teaches us is that we don’t learn from history.
Australia wasn’t hit as hard by the global financial crisis as other countries but we’ve certainly been affected. Now that there are promising signs of recovery, it seems that we’re getting ready to go out and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Money’
Release the brakes …
Giving it all away
It’s fairly widely known that Bill Gates has given away a large part of his $US40 billion ($AU48.7 billion) fortune in the fight against poverty and disease. Not content to miss the opportunity to do even more to make a difference, he’s once again encouraging other billionaires to follow his example and give away most [...]
A Surprising Bank Bungle
I was reading this morning that a Swedish woman was rather surprised at her bank balance when she checked out her account on line recently.
The balance was the equivalent of $1.76 billion higher than she expected.
Cornelia Johansson logged on to her internet bank to pay some bills. I guess you could pay a lot of [...]
When your god dies
Whether you believe in a supreme being or not you’d have to admit that humans have an inbuilt desire to worship. You might not call it worship but we do have a strong tendency to raise people or things high on the pedestals of our desire.
We worship other people, money, success and many other things [...]
Appearances can be deceiving
A great example today of why we shouldn’t base our judgements on appearances.
A Perth family from the suburb of Shelley ignored a plain, brown paper bag for several days. It sat on their front lawn, ignored by the wife who first spotted it and her husband who also thought nothing of it.
When the son decided [...]
