Miscellany
Last words...
"Those moves [increasing interest rates on certain investment loans] have nothing to do with property prices. They are to do primarily with staying within regulatory benchmarks.'
- Ian Narev, CBA Chief Executive Officer, quoted in the AFR.
...and fooling nobody, except possibly the journalist who wrote the article. W&D ventures that the reason that CBA raised its interest rates was to protect its profits.
PS. CBA's profit result: much ado about very little. Even a $1 increase on a previous record profit is... a record profit. But, honestly, lads, Earnings Per Share increasing by 0.25%. Join the dots.
First Samuel client events calendar
Date |
Event |
Description |
Venue |
Tue-9-May-17 |
Charity Event |
Eat StreetThis is Melbourne's most amazing food and wine fest. All the proceeds of the event go to a charity. |
Sofitel, Collins Street. Invitations upcoming. |
Tue-30-May-17 |
Art Series |
NGV Winter Exhibition - First Samuel Private Viewing
|
NGV, St Kilda Road. Invitations upcoming. |
?-August-17 |
Education Series |
Annual ForumThis is our annual 'food for the brain' event. Guest speaker to be confirmed. |
Leonda, Hawthorn Invitations upcoming. |
Some lightly salted absurdities from all over...
At the extreme left-hand of the bell curve
A so-far-unidentified suspect pointing a gun attempted a robbery at a laundromat in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, in February.
The official reason for not identifying him was that, though detained, he had not yet been booked; less likely, perhaps, police might have been trying to spare him embarrassment in that the laundromat's overnight clerk, a woman named Naou Mor Khantha, had simply taken his gun away from him and shot him three times. He was hospitalised in serious condition.
(Delaware County Daily Times)
Robbing a ...laundromat?
Unclear on the concept
Late last year, Oxford University professor Joshua Silver accused Britain's Home Secretary of a "hate" crime merely because the Secretary had made a speech urging that unemployed Britons be given preference for jobs over people recruited from overseas.
Silver denounced this "discrimination" against "foreigners" and made a formal complaint to West Midlands police, which, after evaluation, absolved Secretary Amber Rudd.
(BBC)
Bonus: But the police acknowledged that, under the law, they were required to record the Secretary's unemployment speech as a "non-crime hate incident."
And good to see that the West Midlands police don't have to worry about street crime, drug-trafficking, etc and can focus on these important issues.
Undignified
A 37-year-old Saanich, British Columbia, man nearly bled to death before being heroically rescued following his parking-rage blunder.
Angered that another driver had parked too close to his own car, he grabbed a knife and stabbed a tyre on the other vehicle with such force that he wound up slashing the main artery in his leg.
(Global News BC)
Have a wry and dry weekend
Anthony