Recent content by jhobo

Not much of a choice here. China is our biggest customer.

Agree. If germany leaves Euro now, their deutsche mark will skyrocket, making all their exports expensive and basically killing their export driven economy. Germany wants to stay in Euro and keep euro currency down. They are waging a currency war VS USA and China. At the expense of...

The only way for negative gearing to go away is if tomorrow all property value decline by 70% and stays there for years. That is the only way it will **** off investors to vote for abolishment, so it will never happen again. In other words ... very improbable.

If what you are after is just the ability to make email, sync, messaging etc (standard smartphone feature) I strongly recommend going the android route, particularly Samsung Galaxy s2. Reason being: Powerful hardware, cheap (35 cap contract for virgin, 39 for optus). Most of the apps...

You will need to use itunes. Start up itunes, then add the songs into itunes library, then sync to the iphone. The step by step, search youtube. Oh btw, if you sync it into a new computer, it will wipe all apps installed. Have fun. Oh and you can also use dropbox (think of it as hdd on web)...

Interesting times ahead. Glad I am liquid and not living in NSW, if VIC does the same move I will be more confused than now.

So, housing costs go up then?

Can I just ask, how expensive and difficult it is to add toilet to existing dwelling with floating (concrete) foundation.

But apart from the stunt, do you guys think this will translate to sydney continuing its boom?

I agree with this statement. But understanding the nature of debt, servicing debt, risk management, resource management and exit strategy is paramount if you don't want to be eaten by debt. It is like using a kitchen knife, if you know how to use it, you are a fruit ninja, if you don't then...

Can I also ask, how much threat does bushfire pose to bendigo?

Any concrete names and areas yet?

The talk of downturn is due to china showing a lot of signs of slowing down. China's growth doubles WA's growth, so china's slowdown will .... you get the picture.