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Strange times for investing

Exactly a year ago last week the Australian All Ordinaries Index hit a low of 3,111.

It then rose 55.3 per cent in seven months to 4,830 and since then it's held that level - last Friday it close at 4,831.

These are strange times for investing; it feels like anything could happen - well, perhaps anything except another 55 per cent rise. More

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My experience is that the longer a flat market exists the lower the risk.

Peter Cass, on Strange times for investing (via story comment)

I am a pretty committed voter for one party, but the pandering to religion from both sides is disturbing. Especially the press conferences in front of church.

Michelle, on Painting a picture of politics (via story comment)

Hmmm, it seems as though the real issue is where the funds taken from education have gone... Health has remained static as a proportion of the total budget but education has dropped significantly, so where did all that funding go?

Hubert, on The education devolution (via story comment)

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Our reaction to Lara Bingle exposes us as Victorian throwbacks, says David Burchell in The Australian.
"Bingle may or may not be a ditz. But by treating her as such, merely because she has become a token in our great sexual roundabout of desire and disapproval, we make even bigger ditzes of ourselves."

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The New York Times says a new report on the Lehman collapse reminds us of the crying need for adult supervision of Wall Street.
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Batten down the hatches

The Sydney Morning Herald's Paul Sheehan says the world has become an economically unstable place, with enormous unresolved issues.
"Australia's economy is fundamentally sound, but the global economy is fundamentally unsound. Even a good boat can be swamped by a bad sea..."

Grim words from China

A rare warning from the Chinese Premier that the world could return to recession should be heeded closely, writes Robert Gottliebsen in the Business Spectator.
"We will need to watch the curbs on Chinese local government work. And if the Chinese do pull back, Australia will bear a lot of the short term pain."

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