School traumatised, badly educated, financially ignorant investment company investors, not thinking to ask the right questions, get court out by margin calls during market down turns. Further examples of why citizens are constantly having their need to be curios, punished by irrelevant media stories and bad education.

During the 1970s, after 1968 highly distracting: Apollo missions; Whitlam government; Nixon Watergate... the Vietnam War was partly used to explain worldwide high inflation. Another reason was bond interest rates equaled inflation rate statistics. An OPEC crude oil shock, citizens driving around in heavy 1960s motor vehicles, consuming ever increasing fuel costs fuels.

In October 1979, gold peaking at US$800 an oz, the U.S. dollar was weakening in value crisis. A change in interest rate policy had interest rates placed above inflation rates. Gold fell to US$400 an oz.

I theorise, Australia is being set up. The post WW2 baby boom asset wealthy generation, born around 1946, is presently aged around 70 years. The next generation I conclude will be denied much of the inherited wealth, through various means. Two methods, of which are high inflation and stagnant property prices similar to the early and mid 1970s... and stagnant market traded share prices similar to from 1970 to 1982. The other alternative method is a period similar to 10 years of the 1930s depression.

My suggestion is, that Donald Trump is part of a long time ago, pre-planned candidate for the world economic power leader, U.S. president, Trump being somewhat said to be independent from the Republican Party candidate, who was planned to take responsibility for future loss of wealth experienced by the post WW2 Baby Boom generation.

Donald Trump's embarrassing behaviours are similar to school rooms embarrassing judgemental mentally stressed students' emotionally felt as true anecdotal evidence that allows poor thinking adult voting citizenry to believe every judgement felt, that Trump’s presidency is not a conspiracy to steal citizens wealth. The voting public will be blamed for any future economic declining results, for voting Trump into political power.

Brexit could be another excuse for future high inflationary periods. Great Britain, England is a dominate motor vehicle manufacturer in Europe, shown on an episode of Top Gear. Any rising of trade barriers on completion of England's “free trade block” separation from mainland Europe, any resulting high inflation can be blamed on England’s voting public, freeing capitalism from any responsibility.

As explain previously, bond interest rates rise, bond holders lose by the same increasing interest rate, times the number of remaining years bond holders hold on held bonds.

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I am aware, having been told in around 1999 by media... through history first famous person names, names have meanings, and words in headings also carry secret messages. Alexander the Great, is not a person any person would want to know, and/or want to meet. Alexander likes to play god. The word “Great” when realised with Alexander the Great, indicates a person well left alone.
When Trump says “making America Great again” I assume he's warning selective people in the know, of what he's about.

steve101
Sadly you are on the ball.
Governments, moved by God knows who or what, are rapidly gravitating the populace to a single common denominator in all spheres of life.
One size fits all except for the cashed up higher classes, that magical 2% that control 90% of the wealth pool.

Is Mise,
Apprenticeships today have no meaning other than as a financial bonanza for so called training organizations that suck the public purse.
The modern tradesman has no concept of the true nature of apprenticeship. He has a continuous flow of trainees and has no concept of loyalty because he came through the same TAFE/Trainee programs.
He is trained to accept whatever is thrown his way.

rehctub,
Who pays higher education fees? Certainly not the student. Billions of dollars are owed bu VET students and because these debts might cause psychological damage to the graduates the government is trying to work out some way of forgoing collection. Not collecting the fees but writing them off the books for the student.
We spent millions on the likes of Ian Thorpe in education and training and he never repaid a penny.
My parents had to work their guts out to pay, up front, our university fees.
If a degree is not worth paying for it is not worth having.
Kids can't compete exam wise today because in dunce might get called for what he is, a dunce, and that might hurt his feelings, Exams are based on multiple choice so whom has the better memory gets the correct answer and not the diligent student. Even if you guess wrong you get marks for trying. What a load of crap.

As a product of the services apprenticeship schemes and later TAFE/Universities, I may qualify here.

The "competency based assessment" seems to be the culprit, with its Trainer Assessor (usually someone with no actual experience in the trade or with any subject matter knowledge). If all the boxes are ticked, the attendances are satisfactory, then the trainee/apprentice gets the module passed and so on until the core modules are done, followed by electives if required for that trade. I have observed tradespeople on the job who had absolutely no idea of what they were doing. All done under the AQTF system on a national level. Then we have the states and their various differentiation e.g. electrical codes and codes of practice.

Whilst doing my 2nd trade as Refrigeration Mechanic, I was called into the senior tradesman's office at 5 minutes to knock off on a Friday afternoon to be advised I would be going to a recently completed air con install to repair damaged tiles that the Electrical and Refrigeration tradies had broken. Given a lunch bag full of pre mix concrete and informed that it would be a "45 minute job tomorrow morning".

There were 137 tiles actually broken, and it was for the fact that they knew I did a job properly (Army trained perhaps?) I spent the day hauling that particular company's butt out of the fire. The client was going to court on the Monday to sue for damages.

Whilst at the same company, I quietly advised the senior tradesman that another job would soon be biting them on the bum. They had won a lucrative contract with a WA government department to supply/install/service ac's on GEHA housing in a remote town.

Suffice it to say the contract was won due to their under-sizing the ac units (per unit cost hence lower quote). With ambients of 45 degrees Celsius, it wasn't long before the compressors were burning out due to their constant running day & night. I spent the next 6 weeks doing ferry runs from Geraldton to Meekatharra replacing burnt out compressors...surprise surprise !

My opinions are, Australia is moving away from: higher skilled; higher paid, workers to more mere minimum wage unskilled: food preparer; waitresses, directed at workers who don't enter university. University students delaying working wage incomes, having to pay university fees, spending many years to obtain degrees, providing higher education teacher employments, in most instances, most final employment skills could have been carried out with less traumatised student' HSC qualifications.

This indicates that the Powers That Be in Australia have determined that Australia shall be a low skilled low paid country while some other country is high skilled and high paid.

Its predictable but never the less, no less sad that the Australian People were never involved in this discussion and decision.

@steve101, in response: yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and "I theorise, Australia is being set up," definitely yes.

Look no further than our 'political class' who have not been doing their jobs competently for nigh on 20+ years and have collectively 'sold out' the Commonwealth of Australia inter alia all 'The People' of this nation.

Of course this elite class are merely the 'Public Relations Directors' delivering what is asked of them by the Psychopathic driven fraud and power grab of less publicly accessible people in power.

Politicians overall, not everyone, are too stupid, ignorant, unintelligent, gullible and so unaware to even realise they are being played like fiddles.

Those that are fail to speak truth - until Lambie showed up. But she is on the outside, not inside.

But there's big money in it, celebrity status, feelings of self-importance, egos regularly massaged by their 'owners'. A lifetime in highly paid post-politics bludging to look forward to. No time to think ethics, integrity, morals, nor honouring Oaths!

It's a survival game. Easily played off against each other.

Eventually, Australians might work out that 'Honest' John Howard was the worst most divisive, manipulative, incompetent, dishonest PM our nation has ever had!

Thankfully Abbott didn't last to cause too much damage. A wake up call of sorts and yet no know has faced reality yet. There's no one with conviction to turn this Titanic around.

I do not believe anyone, individually nor collectively, will or can. The People are in a semi-coma with only a few left awake.

Equivalent to Germans in the early 30s - sleep walking on the look out for an easy out from their predicament.

They grabbed the short straw - I suspect we as a nation will too.

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An overview at some tips of this Iceberg we are about to hit:
Psychology, Politics, Economics, Math, Ethics and Morality are inseparable!
http://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPY3VEN0ZDalVNekk

An eagle-eyed look at one key aspect of the Con being Run (aka the 3 card trick)
2013: Satyajit Das - The Australian Dream is Over
http://youtu.be/3K2m7NnO7iY
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