For the sake of efficiency, I am now concentrating on one place as the home for my blogs: Open Forum, at www.openforum.com.au. Have a look at my newest blog here. This is how it starts….
I am writing this as I attend the National Economic Review 2010, at Parliament House in Sydney.
This is a gathering of thinkers from academia, politics, business and the voluntary sector, focused on finding ways to collaborate to create a better future for Australia and Australians. It is about politics, but it is not political and therefore likely to produce concrete initiatives that will produce positive change.
As I sit here, I am pondering the likelihood of a gold bubble.
As people move out of shares and property – and the US dollar – it seems that enormous amounts of money are being turned into gold, in various forms…and the price of gold is soaring to ever higher levels. This is disturbing, for two reasons…….

