Tag: education
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Summer in New York, Washington and Dallas?
I had the pleasure of visiting the US in June this year and visited New York and Washington for the first time for an investing event at the Nasdaq. You can find my latest piece for Cove Magazine, Queensland’s best luxury property and vacation magazine. I enjoyed the visit to the US so much that…
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Other options for the economy?
With inflation almost stuck at mid-to-low 3% in quite a few countries and interest rates having been held where they are over the past few months, are there options available that could reduce the chances of stagnation? My latest piece for The Spectator Australia discusses these.
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Brace Yourself
With inflation having fallen further in Australia and the AUD/USD exchange rate also having fallen, you can find my thoughts on what the quickest, least uncomfortable way for the RBA to bring inflation down could be in the first half of 2024. How can we get to 2-3% as quickly as possibly with the least…
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Don’t get comfy….
My latest piece for The Spectator Australia discusses the option of curbing interest rate rises for the remainder of the year, allowing households and businesses to enjoy the holiday season. With CPI falling and the effects of previous interest rate rises falling into place, I argue that there is no need for further rate rises…
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Higher Interest Rates on the Cards
My latest article for The Spectator Australia discusses how we might pave our way out of inflationary pressures in Australia. Given that the number of ABSs purchased during the pandemic was proportionately the highest out of all western countries’ government bonds purchases, a backtracking on the increased circulation of money within the economy seems to…
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Putting maths back on the curriculum
Maths and the core subjects are sadly in decline. So, what simple strategies can we adopt to make an excellent standard of education more available to all, inclusive of the essential areas children ought to be studying? You can find my thoughts on how we can improve the standard of maths in schools in the…
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Finding truth in the shadows of social media
Time spent on a screen is becoming the norm, with people commonly spending several hours on social media per day. Whilst social media is fantastic in many ways, its drawbacks include increased exposure to bullying among young people and even adults. What can we do about this? You can find my thoughts on using social…
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Education, Education, Education
I recently shared my thoughts on the declining education standards in Australia and New Zealand in a piece in The Spectator Australia. It seems to me that we have become distracted and moved away from the core subjects, including English, Maths, Science, History, Geography and Languages. Simply changing the emphasis and redirecting it back towards…
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Hard work! What is it?
Warning – irony and a brush of humour may be present in this piece, as it is in many a piece of literature, ancient and modern 🙂 Whilst hard work is certainly not a literary genre, we can certainly still look to literature and to history for examples of what it entails. Perhaps in today’s…
NATASHA POOLE - PRIVATE TUTOR, MENTOR & AUTHOR 