Michael Thompson

But

By the sounds of this, you can actually manufacture those circumstances and that mindset that allows you to take advantage of financial luck.

Nothing happening, right?

Brent crude prices continue to rise, heading towards $110 a barrel.

While a resolution between the US and Iran doesn't seem imminent...

at all.

Both sides clearly want to negotiate and that has to be good news, right?

Okay, this is sounding an awful lot like manifesting by stealth.

Local share market yesterday, Sean, closed down 0.6% to 8,711 points.

Okay.

Is there a risk then that you can attribute too much to this idea of luck?

Because if all of a sudden you just go, Joe blogs, he's always so lucky, always gets all of these things.

And I'm always so unlucky.

Plenty still to come back in a moment with the rest of the day's business news.

None of it ever comes to me.

There's a lack of accountability there, right?

Sean, the capital gains tax debate continues to bubble along with growing expectations that the federal government in the May 12 budget will scrap the standard 50% CGT discount, which was introduced back in 1999, and shift to a model that was introduced under the Keating government, whereby the discount is reduced by the rate of inflation.

It's known as an inflation-based discount.

Creative.

Logically.