John Passant: There is the rotten stench wafting from the crypt of Parliament of a dying party bereft of principle whose raison d’etre is power for powers’ sake, not the betterment of the working class and the poor.
….The Slipper syndrome – power before principle, rule for the rich – highlights once again the bankruptcy of Labor and may be another heaving gasp on the way to the final death rattle of the ALP’s version of social democracy in Australia.
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Colin Twiggs is a former investment banker with almost 40 years of experience in financial markets. He founded PVT Capital (AFSL number 546090), which provides income and growth strategies to wholesale clients.
Colin also co-founded Incredible Charts and writes the popular Patient Investor newsletter.
Using a top-down approach, Colin identifies macro trends in the global economy and then combines fundamental and technical analysis to evaluate opportunities in sectors that stand to benefit.
Focusing on interest rates and financial market liquidity as primary drivers of the economic cycle, he warned of the 2008/2009 and 2020 bear markets well ahead of actual events.