Author: richie

We have just avoided the US “Fiscal Cliff’ & my kids will think this is funny as I roll out another 1980′s tune from Lionel Richie, but now we are really Dancing on the Debt Ceiling. I find this all a bit comical as I...

No it’s not a new Nintendo game – but merely the latest instalment in high flying world finance. Super Mario is Mario Draghi the governor of the European Central Bank (ECB). Over the summer, Super Mario told the world that he would do “whatever it takes”...

Remembering Neil Armstrong I remember Man landing on the moon as clear as a bell. I was just about to turn 6 years old & in Grade 1 at primary School – We were I think all sent home from school & given a half...

Having been born in the early 1960′s (either Baby Boomer or Gen X – experts can’t make up their minds), I remember the 1st record my Mum bought me – a 45 (that’s a small black round thing with a whole in the middle of...

So over 2 million Australians watched the tale of World Series Cricket & Kerry Packer last weekend. As a teenager at the time I remember my viewing of sporting events changing dramatically. It seems funny today with digital TV, broadband, 3D, etc. but back in...

So The Summer Olympics of 2012 have begun and so do the hope of all competing nations. It takes me back to the great time that we had in Sydney in 2000. First of all I went to a presentation that Rod McGeoch spoke at...