By Bevan Ramsden “We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil;Our home is girt by sea;Our land abounds in nature’s gifts…..” So our national anthem tells us but the truth is that whilst our country has immense natural resources and potential wealth, the vast majority of Australians are deprived of a share in this wealth. And deprived to the extent that …

By Humphrey McQueen Anniversaries are not harbingers of doom. Twenty-five years back, Walter Marks of Oakland Capital, which now manages $US200 billion, had warned his clients that the dot.com boom was a bubble about to burst. On March 23 that year, the market peaked. From there, the Millennium Bug was not in the race to the bottom. This year, in …