Whilst you are not used to seeing term deposit rates < 2% in Australia, competition for deposits sees the Australian Banks continuing to offer some of the highest deposit rates of some of the advanced economies in the Western World. For example NAB’s 1 year term deposit rate of...
Having just returned from Europe Silvia & I can tell you that we frequented Starbucks quite regularly. Many of you may think might think ugh, why Starbucks, given that it “crashed & burned” in Australia and that we like our espresso brewed coffee from our local coffee shop, rather...
You could be forgiven if the RBA Governor Philip Lowe after reducing the Overnight Cash Rate last week to 1.25% if he didn’t have the Three Dog Night song rattling around in his head (appropriate name really for the band singing this song, although I remember Johnny Farnham’s version...
Remember the time when the whole family sat down to watch a weekly series than ran for 3 months. Often this program had already been played in the Eastern States weeks before or if an overseas show it would a year old or so. Pay TV...
The Federal Budget that has a little bit of everything in it for virtually everybody (well unless you earn > $200,000 pa, are a Multi-National Corporation or are Unemployed). Scott Morrison could well be saying the following lines to Josh Frydenberg this morning (like Errol Brown from Hot Chocolate),...
Federal Budget time next week so we get the update on how the Nations finances are looking and any new tax measures that may or may not be introduced (expect some “election sweeteners” this year). It is timely in having recently lodged my tax return the Government now tells...