James Thompson

speaker

987 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 18 Aug

James Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 3 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 2.

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The Money Café with Alan Kohler · There's No Place Like Home · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

I'm reading a novel called The Peak, a new novel about – which is quite interesting about sort of – matched

Espionage in Canberra and China and beyond. matched

And I just finished, this is not business related at all, but the book Dylan Goes Electric, which was about when Bob Dylan started playing electric guitars for the first time at the Newport Folk Festival. matched

Oh, I want to read that. matched

I'll lend it to you, Alan, and we can have our own book type discussion. matched

Oh, that sounds good too. matched

I might borrow that one off you. matched

Well, I mean, I think where governments forgive debt is – I mean, yes, debt still has to be paid. matched

But I think – I'll correct this if I'm wrong. matched

But where governments forgive debt – now, what would be an example? matched

Where governments forgive debts to a foreign, you know, an emerging – matched

economy or something like that. matched

It just means that the debt is sort of cancelled, what the other party owes is cancelled. matched

But yes, we have extended, real people, super funds, pension funds from other countries have extended the loan to the government to do that. matched

Do you think that's what John's talking about? matched

Yes. matched

We've forgiven, we've partially forgiven some HECS debts recently. matched

Yeah, okay. matched

Sure. matched

Yes, it is slightly confusing, John, so don't feel – I think, yeah, the government's forgiving debt and cancelling debt are two different things. matched

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