Posts by Blake Monkley
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Checked out those Virgin Blue flights yet?
I have but where the hell is Lewat Jalannya on the Aussie website...
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I'm jealous.
Simon, I miss the pea and carrot conversations.
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I'd like to make a complaint regarding excessive bird noise outside my window. I believe its Tui, that are the ring leaders.
Try Crows - Phwark Phwark Phwark.
Certain, this is where an Aussie accent comes from.
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<quote>This 90 Day Trial can then be introduced as a solution and if it is timed right - in step with a bottoming out of the worldwide economy - unemployment will soon reduce and the Bill can be proclaimed a success.<quote>
Do you mean as a solution to cutting wages and employing more people?
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90 day fire at will
Surely this does not affect the application of the law relating to unjustifiable dismissal even in a probationary period?
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And while the headline interests are plummeting, inflation is retreating too, and that should moderate the loss of real income.
If China slows more than expected and Governments then had to keep slashing interest rates and inflation continued to retreat you would end up with this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidity_trap
I might be acting all negative but China seems awfully critical to all of this.
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Isn't it more like getting the overdosing smack addict to do multiple lines of coke to wake him up -- and then finding yourself with a dude with cocaine psychosis?
Will certainly end up homeless.
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Am I missing something, these massive rate cuts we're seeing all over the world can bring some benefit in the short-term, in the long-term they will only recreate the conditions that brought about this mess in the first place. Lowering interest rates will have the same effect as a dose of smack would have to someone who's already overdosing on the stuff.
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'Stimulus package' makes me think of dirty things. Am I alone in that?
Touchy subject.
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Stimulus package.