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Flourish ... or freeze in fear

Steve Johnson and I grew up together in Wellington, a small rural community in central western NSW. In Year 12 our economics class took part in the ASX’s sharemarket game and we teamed up, finishing third out of more than 1500 teams after finding a quirk in the system related to the time it took to post the discs back and forth between the ASX and our school.

Splitting the $500 prize money was a great result, but we had an

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