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John Garnaut writes a great piece on redesigning the Australian tax system to be simpler, cheaper, and fairer.
Have a butchers at this: a new tax world
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Tim Oren writes a fascinating answer to the question:
What is the best reasoning behind why shareholders have limited liability for a corporation’s environmental and social costs? Not on a case by case basis, but why it is the blueprint for the most powerful pillar of society?
Check out Tim’s historical summary of Why Is Shareholder Liability [...]

As part of a general clean up of my website, I made some changes to the pages that hold my Adelaide Advertiser Real Estate section page count analysis.
I thought I would add updates to my blog rather than having them on a separate webpage.
Here is some background.
December 2nd, 2001
After some interesting comments from a friend [...]

I manage my investment finances with Quickbooks.
I also suffer from a compulsion to over-engineer any solution I implement.
So, once I had worked out how Quickbooks works, I set about constructing a complex (but very accurate) mechanism for tracking my finances. It was a work of art, something which would make any accountant for a large [...]

PaulZag writes about going into business in his blog. I too have thought seriously about this path. Once I started seriously thinking about business opportunities, I started seeing them everywhere. It almost seemed as though they were jumping out at me – like DVD hawkers on a busy Beijing street “hello hello, sir, you buy [...]