Shane Oliver can’t get  over Brady bonds  We all remember the 1974 banking  crisis in the UK, but for one economist  the year has a special place in history for  a very different reason. It was the year  that American sitcom The Brady Bunch  was cancelled.  Dr Shane Oliver, chief economist at  AMP Capital, admits he was – and still  is – rather fond of Marcia Brady (aka  Maureen McCormick) when growing  up.  “In 1974 the show was cancelled,  but I was still watching it on TV,” he  told the audience at a post-Budget  breakfast organised by AIST. 

“I’ve told that story so many times  that someone bought me Maureen Mc-  Cormick’s autobiography recently. I’ve  just finished reading it.”  But while Marcia clearly stole the  show for Oliver, Naomi Steer, director  of ASSET Super sided with Jan, who  always felt she lived in her sister Marcia’s  shadow, before putting her question  to Minister for Superannuation, Nick  Sherry.  “I’m with Jan, I never liked Marcia,  it was always Marcia, Marcia, Marcia,”  she quipped.  Adopting the middle ground, like a  true politician, Sherry responded: “Well,  I liked all the girls.”  (and Spanish