| Interest rates - the blame game
I'm a tie-to-the-belt-buckle guy so I found this strange and concerning: if they're being flippant with their ties, what else are they being flippant with?
This sartorial fun was just after the severe early 1990s recession, when the Reserve Bank got it wrong. Unfortunately, it's still getting it wrong.
Australians should blame the RBA for rising interest rates - with another one expected tomorrow - not just the former Coalition government.
For too long, Australians have looked to the RBA to solve economic problems. But there hasn't been enough focus on the fact that our central bank is likely to have inflamed the problems.
Our central bank projects an aura of omnipotence. But like any other government organisation it is fallible - and arguably flawed.
Iowa To Host Olympic Trials
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The Olympic trials are coming to Iowa. Des Moines has been selected as a host site for the Summer Olympic trials for tae kwon do. The trials, set for April, will determine the final three spots on the four-member U.S. team headed for China in August. The bouts will be held as part of USA Taekwondo's national juniors qualifying event on April 4th and 5th. The trials will mark what is believed to be the first time the state has hosted a final Olympic qualifying event. It comes less than three months before another, the Hy-Vee Triathlon in June. .
Whatcom County Jail report for Feb. 20
Al Norman Noland Jr., booked by the Bellingham Police Department for failure to appear for second-degree driving with a suspended license and first-degree negligent driving. Shawn Anthony Wilson, booked by the Whatcom County Sheriffs Office for fourth-degree assault. Dana Lynn Bidlake, booked by the Whatcom County Sheriffs Office for a Department of Corrections secretarys warrant. Michael James Zilonka, booked by the Bellingham Police Department for investigation of first-degree theft and unlawful issuance of blank checks. Todd Allen Rasmussen, booked by the Whatcom County Sheriffs Office for third-degree driving with a suspended license. Randall Bruce Wick, booked by the Whatcom County Sheriffs Office for investigation of unlawful possession of a firearm and a no contact order violation.
CDG to Host Executive Workshop: Advanced Strategies for Engineering ...
CYPRESS, Calif., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Continental DataGraphics (CDG), a Boeing Company, announced an upcoming executive workshop event, "Advanced Strategies for Engineering and Technical Data Management". The event will be hosted in Marina Del Rey, California on November 8. This educational workshop is designed to provide manufacturers and other engineering-focused organizations with an overview of several leading edge "Lean" approaches for managing engineering and technical data. The workshop will provide an overview of the S1000D technical publications standard, which is rapidly gaining acceptance in both military and commercial engineering programs in the US. Also included in the agenda will be a discussion of Boeing's recent decision and plans to adopt the S1000D standard for its 787 aircraft program, and an objective tutorial on the key factors to be considered when evaluating S1000D software tools.
Rich Hofmann: There will be a lot to digest in Clemens steroids ...
I WAS GOING TO HAVE a Roger Clemens Hearing Party but didn't know what to serve. The other sports are so much easier. Super Bowl parties all have a hollowed-out loaf of bread, kind of shaped like a football, with some dipping glop poured inside. If you have people over to watch a fight on pay-per-view, it's pretty much chips right out of the bag. But what do you do with this? And can you drink at 10 o'clock on a Wednesday morning? Or, rather, can you not drink and get through it? So many questions. Like, can ESPN's Chris Berman find a way to keep himself off of Deadspin for 5 minutes and come up with a few nicknames on the pregame show? Like, say, Henry "Turtle" Waxman? If I were a member of the committee, one of the esteemed honorables who had the good fortune to be assigned to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform - screw that Foreign Affairs or Ways and Means stuff - I would be torn about my appearance.
Windows Live Platform Services: A guide for the perplexed
All about Microsoft Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Previous Post: Apple finally acknowledges iPhone's Exchange support Next Post: Ballmer: It's all about Web developers Windows Live Platform Services: A guide for the perplexed Posted in: Windows Live Office Live Web 2.0 Mix '08 Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie outlined during his Mix '08 keynote this week a very high-level vision about how Microsoft is moving to be more of a utility-computing/cloud-computing vendor. Ozzie didn't talk specifics about any of the plumbing that makes it possible. But David Treadwell, Corporate Vice president of Live Platform Services, with whom I had a chance to meet at the conference this week, shed some light on what Microsoft is building to enable all the fancy "entertainment mesh" and "connected productivity" scenarios that Microsoft is promising to provide in the coming years.
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