Good week ... our dear Aussie dollar. Much like Shane Warne, continues to bat well above its weight. The Aussie dollar is in fact too high. Even though commodities prices have peaked and the mining boom is deflating, our dollar is being propped up by our relatively high domestic interest rates (for now). 

Bad week ... former coal baron Nathan Tinkler. Last year he was a billionaire rich lister who liked a punt (so much he reportedly blew $300 million setting up his own horse racing stable). This week Tinkler's head trainer revealed he didn't have enough money to cover the cost of the hay for the horses! 

Deal of the week ... Buy a Spanish home for 160,000 euros ($A197,000) or more (thinking about sunshine and beach in winter holiday), and for a limited time the Spanish Government will grant foreign investors free residency and citizenship - and presumably the right to pay ever-increasing amounts of tax.