Extract from The Clearance Newsletter 11.9.14
THE MARKETS Those of a non NZ persuasion probably don’t care but milk is now worth less than not only gold (which is worth nothing) but also the grass [...]
Bubblemania?
On of the biggest threats to investors’ wealth is succumbing to our most ancient instincts when making investment decisions. We are seeing signs of th [...]
9.5.14 Edition of The Clearance
Cleft sticks and the great American novel Joseph Heller wrote Catch 22 in 1961 (under the working title Catch 18, a number already taken by Leon Uris [...]
Labour’s laboured leap left to save us all from financial armageddon
Labour’s finance spokesman/spokesperson/spokessexually&speciesagnosticlifeform (delete to taste) David Parker (surprisingly no relation to Peter P [...]
Who’d be a weatherman?
The life of a meteorologist cannot be a happy one. They are charged with predicting the virtually unpredictable using a combination of maths, historic [...]
What is the aspect of investing that has changed the most in the last decade?
How "cheap" can cost you... A short video on the rise & rise of "low cost" index funds and why this trend could cost you your wealth. [...]
18.3.14 Edition of The Clearance
From The Newswires: Crimea gets annexed & the US fails to invade Russia as a consequence, something the loony right in the US indicates makes Obam [...]