Marco's Blog

Next year will be better!

My simple rule of thumb is: that for the longer the term of the investment (before being profitable), the further it should be towards natio...

Re: Australian outback alcoholism, child abuse in remote communities. The comment by the prime minister is quite irresponsible. Let's se...

Since Wednesday here in Townsville, the temperature has dipped below 20' C and on thursday we had our lowest EVER maximum of 13.9' C...

Going straight from my axioms, - The judgement on policy is essentially which country does well in a typical competitive environment in th...

New information as explained in this Economist Briefing RNA - Really New Advances seems to discredit what I call the "Darwinist Triump...

Outright war between the Palestinian Autority and a privately funded terrorist organisation, I had counted as a "win" for Israel i...

Dr. Clam, quite flatteringly suggested future Giant robot leaders would be well versed in "marconomics" and therefore avoid the pi...

Like elephants, tigers, whales, koalas etc., selected large mammals have such an importance in human's consciousness, that an unfathomly...

This is my theory about oil prices principally, but it works equally well for prices for a range of other stuff. My theory is to do with pri...

As in ownership and control. Lawmaking - The Government is that which makes the laws about stuff. Law enforcement - Enforce the laws that on...

* - Continuous Spectrum. For any "Stuff" there is a continuum of policy of ownership from Government-owned monopoly all the way to...

Environmental "scientists", I believe have been guilty of Species Inflation with regards to polar bears. One of the things that e...

Tourism in Greenland is evidence that Global Warming brings opportunity in equal measure to threat.

I am not really a big fan of the historical sciences. To me it makes a mockery of the word science(*). Scientific method is about repeatable...

I have had a lot to say about the middle-east with specific reference to Iran in Kraus Rohde's Blog . I may seem to be completely in the...

As usual the my spur of the moment environment entries attract comments while my entries on cosmology and budget get completely ignored. W...

This article states confidently that Australia's emissions grow at twice the rate of other rich countries but was there a link to the d...

One of the things that always bothered me about the "Big Bang" was the mathematically awkward descriptions of the setoff process. ...

I remember now I was going to say something about the Australian Budget. In the two extremes, the superannuation co-contribution policy buil...