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Such a thing can never happen again!

September 1st, 2009 by Syd Walker

In early August I blogged The Ingenuity of the Markets – featuring a skit by the brilliant British satirists John Bird and John Fortune.

This is in similar vein about the famous South Sea Bubble (circa 1720).

It was not the Bubble to End All Bubbles as advertised. They never are…

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sentience writes:
April 29th, 20123:10 pmat

hard to find the appropriate article to append this interesting visit by the honorable bill shorten. couldn’t find “rorts in the making”, so south sea bubble will have to do:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wealth/shorten-to-study-israeli-superannuation/story-e6frgac6-1226335674107

could it come to pass that some of our “sovereign wealth”, as bill shorten calls superannuation, ends up in foreign hi-tech companies, many of which are centred around global eavesdropping?

sentience

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