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Are the wheels falling off everything?

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:October 30, 2020
Post category:Greg Ray's Writing

THERE are times, like this week, when it feels to me as if the wheels are falling off just about everything. The US election looms like an iceberg ahead. In…

How to destroy an economy and create a recession: an idiot’s guide

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:February 29, 2020
Post category:Greg Ray's Writing

So you want to wreck an economy and cause a recession? Well fair enough. It’s good to have a dream. But wrecking an economy can take years, so if that’s…

Paper seller at BHP Newcastle, NSW, 1962

Your future may depend on READING “the news”.

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:July 8, 2019
Post category:Greg Ray's Writing

HAVING spent decades working in the newspaper industry, I flatter myself that I have learnt how to read newspapers. I don’t mean just reading them: I mean really READING them,…