The author has been described by News Ltd as an "iconoclast", "Svengali", a pollie's "economist muse", and "pungently accurate". Fairfax says he is a "Renaissance man" and "one of Australia’s most respected analysts." Stephen Koukoulas concludes that he is "85% right", and "would make a great Opposition leader." Terry McCrann claims the author thinks "‘nuance’ is a trendy village in the south of France", but can be "scintillating" when he thinks "clearly". The ACTU reckons he’s "an enigma wrapped in a Bloomberg terminal, wrapped in some apparently well-honed abs."

Monday, December 20, 2010

Memo to Bernie Fraser on portability...

Enclosed is a link to a new World Bank paper that advocates a similar idea to my NECR proposal, which could supply the technology architecture to enable true customer data portability. (This was brought to my attention by Nicholas Gruen.)