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D-Day for Australia's auto industry

Nov 9, 2008
It'll probably do well out of the government today, even though its future looks bleak. It was Keivn Rudd who said, "I don't want to be Prime Minister in a country where we don't make things anymore".

Inflation's high. So what?

Oct 20, 2008
Australia’s inflation rate is set to hit a long-term high of 5 per cent when the figures are unveiled tomorrow – well beyond the Reserve Bank’s target zone. But the Bank is expected to keep on cutting Australian interest rates...

How bad are things?

Oct 15, 2008
The Opposition and a growing body of economists are calling on the government to release the economic forecasts behind this week's $10.4 billion stimulus package as speculation swirls around what they might contain.

What if the money didn't flow no matter how far rates were cut?

Oct 8, 2008
That's how things are looking. Paul Krugman explains:"..the relationship between Fed funds rates and the rates most businesses actually pay is very weak right now, thanks to the messed-up state of the financial system.

Is our Reserve Bank worried? You bet!

Sep 25, 2008
Over the past year, the US financial system has faced its most challenging conditions for many decades, prompting exceptional responses from the US authorities.

Westpac - its just like a bank that... Here's the ad reworked:

Dec 10, 2009
HT: Mumbrella Meantime the bank has removed from its website another ad featuring its moved-on retail chief Peter Hanlon. Related Posts . Westpac's week - so far . Westpac digs deeper . Now Westpac treats its staff like...

Westpac said it wasn't the jetstar of Banking. Then Jetstar fought back

Dec 10, 2009
HT: Mumbrella Related Posts . Westpac's week - so far . Westpac digs deeper . Now Westpac treats its staff like idiots . The mating call of the banks Peter Martin is economics correspondent for the Sydney Morning...

Perhaps the NSW Premier doesn't understand too much

Dec 10, 2009
What's dumb about the Premier's jobs press release? Hint - she has highlighted the relevant sentence in bold: 091210 Premier Welcomes Employment Data Related Posts . The trend, the trend...why does the Bureau keep pushing...

Unemployment is turning down already

Dec 10, 2009
According the Bureau's flawed "trend" In any event the underlying news IS really, really good An extraordinary surge in hiring has seen 100,000 new jobs created in three months, more than half of them in Victoria, pushing Australia's...

Westpac's week - so far

Dec 9, 2009
Michael Evans in BusinessDay: Westpac customers, and even the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, are now picking apart the bank and its image-conscious boss - who was once carried into a St George staff Christmas party dressed as Cleopatra sitting on a...


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