show me the money

Scanning today's news headline I can't help noticing there is a common theme to all the news piece.. money. Well.. that's how journalists pick a story to write I suppose?

1. A house in Toorak (I think it's like Remuera in Auckland) sold for 14.5 mil in Feb 2009, now sold for 25 mil.. the buyer is going to bulldoze the old house, and build a new one.

2. Theresa Gattung got about 3 mil a year when she had the top job at Telecom. Her successor, happens to be a guy.. currently gets around 7 mil. Oh.. and you guessed it, her former partner had an affair with a friend when she was the chief exec..

3. A GP in the UK gets about NZ$230,000 a year..

4. JAL shares closed at One yen before it went bankrupt in Jan 2010. This is shocking really. Reminds me of the book Corporate Collapse I read a few years ago, during the aftermath of Enron. oh.. apparently their uniform fetches for around NZ$4300?

5. No, I don't suppose money is everything because happiness is priceless.