Ever heard of Diners Club? Most people under a certain age have not, even though it was once the pioneer in creating credit card culture. My first credit card was a Diners Club card – a charge card actually (there is a subtle difference between charge cards and credit cards). I got it in March …
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We Are Pleased To Announce That We Are Passing On This Rate Increase In Full On Your Variable Home Loan…
The heading for this blog post is taken from a message sent out in the past day by ME Bank to its home loan customers, following the announcement by the Reserve Bank that official interest rates were rising. This tone deaf message probably marks the dissolution of the last vestige of the myth that ME …
Behold Your False Profit!
In the late 1980s, some local film makers produced a rather silly film about a computer nerd who summons a future sharkish version of himself to the present. It was called Future Past. Most of the film then consists of him trying to suppress his demonic future self (some sort of insider trading stock broker with …
