There’s an adage about being “careful for what you wish for” that could apply to the increasingly shrill scaremongering coming from our Federal Treasurer, writes Glenn Dyer.
King canute
The many anecdotes of Richard Woolcott
Richard Woolcott is Australia’s most respected diplomat with connections world-wide second to none - but Howard and Downer won’t have a bar of him at APEC, where he is known personally to most of the participants.
Don’t forget distressed debt
Reading much of the commentary by various Australian financial market commentators about the genius of private equity and their seeming insatiable appetite for snapping up Australian companies often reminds me of the story of the fawning courtiers around King Canute who told the King he could even command the sea.
