September 1, 2008 – 9:30 pm
Shareholders were cranky at Aristocrat Leisure for not being open enough about its true financial position so brought a class action against the pokie machine maker who will now pay $40 million to settle the dispute. Great news. Though, for some reason I still think someone is missing out on all the mad coin from […]
The annual celebration of money that is the publication of the BRW Rich 200 which lists Australia’s wealthiest individuals has been released.
Andrew Forrest takes the top spot, James Packer drops down a few notches and Alan Bond rejoins the world of ubiquitous cash. All great news for those involved I guess but kind of depressing for […]
Confused about fuel prices? Well, this infographic will probably confuse you some more while illustrating the price of fuel per gallon around the globe.
Some selected prices below:
London $6.65
Paris $6.52
Hong Kong $6.30
Tokyo $4.49
Sydney $3.57
New York $2.76
Baghdad $1.19
Kuwait City $0.79
Tehran $0.33
(found via PSFK)
news.com.au is reporting that at 6:13am the Australian dollar reached its highest level in currency markets for 24 years.
Booyah! I guess.
Though it is great news for people travelling stateside but really ordinary news for people who earn coin direct from America as well as for those who sell goods to the USA.
Can’t imagine that […]
It is the first Australian Labor Party budget since 1995. Can you feel Big Business quivering that The Left might takeover and give everyone free health care and make being rich less fun? Exciting.
You could watch the Budget being performed live on the teev tonight (if you do, make sure you try to spot Peter […]
A overwhelmingly numbing coulda shoulda woulda article on SMH today about a Brisbane bloke who basically controlled the world’s online porn industry in the ’90s but lost it all. Contains an obligatory “no regrets” statement even though things went fubar.
Daniel Tzvetkoff, if you waste your internet gambling cash like this we will do up some […]