Whether it’s lottery tickets, bar tabs or lunch dates, we all have something we spend money on that we think we shouldn’t. But according to personal finance expert Paula Pant, waste is in the eye of the beholder.
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Is your morning latte a waste of money? (Infographic) | Marketplace.org
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UK removing carbon from the energy equation - The Science Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
British policy is to change the electricity industry so it emits very little carbon. Then transport needs to be changed to use electricity. Richard Lester reviews the options and the challenges.
Guests: Richard Green, Professor of Sustainable Energy Business, Business School, Imperial College London UK
Further Information Richard Green at Imperial College London (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/r.green)
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Superannuation in Australia - Rear Vision - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Rear Vision dives into the murky waters of superannuation to see just how Australia came up with its unusual system of retirement funding.
A means-tested age pension became available in Australia to all women aged sixty and men aged sixty five in 1910. It was - and is - paid out of general revenue. Superannuation – a retirement savings scheme in which our employer contributes a certain percentage of our wages into a fund – didn’t become widely available in Australia until it was introduced by the Keating government in the early 1990s. Rear Vision looks at how Australia came up with its unusual system of funding retirement through a mix of superannuation and the age pension.
Guests:
Professor Susan Thorp, Chair of Finance and Superannuation, University of Technology, SydneyPeter Martin, Economics correspondent for Fairfax Media
Professor Francis Castles, Emeritus Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
Further Information:
ASIC Money Smart (https://www.moneysmart.gov.au/superannuation-and-retirement)http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/superannuation-in-australia/4626038
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Zoos Cruise w/ Avery Edison | Pre-Recorded | Funny interviews, improv and sketch comedy
A former (?) economic assassin details her exploits working for Her Majesty’s Totally Super Secret Service, trying to undermine other national economies. On the lighter side, the cruise director for the annual Zookeepers Convention talks to us about this year’s festivities. Featuring Avery Edison on Twitter @aedison, and Landon Kirksey on Twitter @itslandon.
http://www.pre-recorded.com/2013/03/zoos-cruise-w-avery-edison/
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Economic Policy Deception | Michael Hudson
Another in the series of interviews on the Renegade Economists radio show (Australia), a wide ranging analysis of the advantages to wealth that money print…
http://michael-hudson.com/2013/03/economic-policy-deception/
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Improve Your Business Writing - HBR IdeaCast - Harvard Business Review
An interview with Bryan Garner, editor in chief of Black’s Law Dictionary and author of the HBR Guide to Better Business Writing.
Business bloggers at Harvard Business Review discuss a variety of business topics including managing people, innovation, leadership, and more.
http://blogs.hbr.org/ideacast/2013/02/improve-your-business-writing.html
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Podcast 12: Stupid Financial Advice and 5 Myths of Personal Finance
What are the most common mistakes in personal finance — especially among blog readers?
I recorded a 30-minute interview with Flexo and Tom over at the Consumerism Commentary podcast with extensive notes below. It’s called Stupid Financial Advice + The 5 Myths of Personal Finance.
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Why We’re All in Sales - HBR IdeaCast - Harvard Business Review
Business bloggers at Harvard Business Review discuss a variety of business topics including managing people, innovation, leadership, and more.
http://blogs.hbr.org/ideacast/2013/02/why-were-all-in-sales.html
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James Turk: Central Banks are Losing the War to Suppress Gold & Silver Prices | Peak Prosperity
My guess is that 2013 and 2014 are going to be big up year for the precious metals, but we still have to contend with the central planners and the various government policies, which have been actively trying to keep the gold and silver prices from reaching fair value. The central planners are losing the war. They may win an occasional battle or tw
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The Parable of the Ox: podcast explains the disastrous separation of financial markets from the real economy
An excellent recent episode of the BBC Radio 4 math/current affairs show "More or Less" dramatized "The Parable of the Ox," a short article by John Kay originally published in the Financial Times (paywalled, alas, or I’d link to it). Fans of James Surowiecki’s Wisdom of the Crowds will know the first part of this story — wherein the average of several guesses about the weight of an ox was more accurate than the guesses of any of the experts in the crowd. What this podcast and the article adds is a coda about how the use of "guesses" (or stock trades) as a way of weighing the ox quickly departed from guesses about the weight of the ox (or the value of a firm) and turned into guesses about other peoples’ guesses about other peoples’ guesses — a financialized system that soon has no connection to the real economy or the real ox. And it ends, predictably enough, when the ox dies.
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