Finance

Big business besieged Fairfax is un-Manning the barricades

Big business besieged Fairfax is un-Manning the barricades

Tweet Fairfax’s sacking of brave whistleblower, financial reporter Paddy Manning, marks a sad turning point in the history of Australian journalism, writes Associate Professor Evan Jones. Sacked Fairfax financial journalist and whistleblower,...

 

Watch out resource investors — carbon bubble set to pop

Watch out resource investors — carbon bubble set to pop

Tweet A new report says most fossil fuels must stay in the ground if the world’s to meet its carbon targets — something you probably never heard from the resource companies you invested your super with. Guy Lane reports. Is the fossil...

 

Who is the Reserve Bank really looking after?

Who is the Reserve Bank really looking after?

Tweet In Australia today, there is very little concern about how much influence the RBA has over the structure and direction of the Australian economy, writes Murray Hunter. WITH AN Australian dollar 10 per cent overvalued according to an IMF...

 

How debt peonage dispossesses the masses

How debt peonage dispossesses the masses

Tweet Why, after 200 years of industrialisation, are Westerners generally poor, overworked and swamped by debt, asks Matthew Mitchell. WHY, after more than 200 years of industrialisation, are most Westerners so poor? Despite the massive productive...

 

Time to end Tony Abbott’s deceitful debt scare campaign

Time to end Tony Abbott’s deceitful debt scare campaign

Tweet Tony Abbott, aided by an increasingly willing and partisan mainstream media, has been fostering public misconceptions and fear around national debt and the GFC. Matthew N. Donovan blows the lid on another Abbott scare campaign. (Image...

 

Facts speak for themselves — Australia still lucky country

Facts speak for themselves — Australia still lucky country

Tweet Despite the News Ltd media and the Coalition talking down our economy at every turn, Australia truly is an economic marvel. Matthew N. Donovan crunches the numbers. THERE HAS been a lot of misinformation around lately regarding the situation...

 

The case of the Bumbling Bureaucrat

The case of the Bumbling Bureaucrat

Tweet Four Corners’ exposé this week on the betrayal of our aged by managed investments schemes ignored the corporate regulator’s role in this debacle, says Mason initial P. Click on the image to watch ABC Four Corners’ ‘Betrayal...

 

Masters of the universe and the efficient markets myth

Masters of the universe and the efficient markets myth

Tweet There is no such thing as an “invisible hand” guiding the market, just a whole lot of real hands, says former investment banker – and IA managing editor – David Donovan. Read the other parts of this series: Part 1: The art of...

 

The art of economics

The art of economics

Tweet Many people wonder why economists seem unable to ever successfully predict anything. Managing editor David Donovan says the reason is simple: it’s because economics is an art — not a science. Read the other parts of this series: Part...

 

Sympathy for the NAB

Sympathy for the NAB

Tweet The National Australia Bank suffered a drastic “profit slump” last year, only clearing a meagre $4.1 billion last year. Sue Stevenson offers some kindly words of support. Dear National Australia Bank, Thank you for your two...

 
 
 
 

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