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Liberalise economy or prepare for war, warns economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
Governments must slash corporate, income and capital gains tax, wind back environmental reforms and break up the big banks if they want to recover from the "global depression", bestselling author and economist James G. Rickards has told superannuation ...

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
Raise your hands all ye who thinks that their economy is growing above and beyond potential, that there's no slack in their nations' respective labour markets or that their labour force is not "under-utilised", and that it's time... to normalise interest ...

Because I'm happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... yeah, Well, give me all you got, and don't hold it back, yeah,...because I'm happy (Happy)." -- Pharrell Williams, 'Happy' A nice complement to Chumbawamba's "I get knocked down but..." when talking about the equity markets don't you think Virginia? ...

Wall Street is in a spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... consumer spending - lower business profits. These chain of events would then, ultimately, sending the economy to cactusville. Nice and sweet tale to tell 'eh? Especially, given last night's three-digit-point loss in the Dow. But I wonder, wonder if the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
The Australian share market has pushed above the 5,500 mark at the open on the back of a positive lead from markets in the United States last week. "We've just had a positive lead from Friday's trade. The US just kept ticking along nicely," IG market ...

PROFILE: Actuaries Institute CEO David Bell

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... a tough, all-male, environment," he says. "Either you met the standard or you were out. It wasn't a finishing school for nice blokes." After four years of studying, Bell started out as a junior officer in infantry, then the parachute unit. "My first ...

Promises promises and broken promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... follows. Lessened consumer spending would impact on business sentiment and sales and by extension, the overall economy. It's nice to know that the mighty Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) thinks the same way. In its latest ...

Prescriptions galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014

First quarter stasis and A$ ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... conference in Hong Kong that the Australian economy could grow above trend in the next 12-24 months... and a lotta other "nice" things about the economy. Couple this with the prospect of "no China slowdown" and boom. I didn't want to belabour the point ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
... commodity prices. IG market strategist Evan Lucas said he thought there was relatively strong momentum for quality. "There is a nice balance in the banks again, which is good to see with CBA coming off its dividend, and Telstra as well is back even though ...