October
The miscalculations of Aaron Erter, American moron
The window for investors to save James Hardie is closing. Its CEO’s Azek egg can’t be unscrambled, but he should be forced to face some adults in the room.
Like watching a pair of spotted hyenas casing a snuggle of tree sloths
The Southern Cross Media deal shows there is nothing the Stokeses enjoy more than circling a few soft-palmed company directors who are not up for a fight.
September
At James Hardie, reasonable people are an alien species
As class action lawyers circle, Aaron Erter is going to be pushing shit uphill to show he didn’t know the cash register had stopped ringing.
July
What am I, Andrew Forrest, going to do today?
Twiggy has been busy fortifying his self-image as human rights hero and climate change white knight even as he abandons his hyper-hyped green projects.
July
ASX’s fetish for dual-class shares is downright nuts
Computershare’s PointsBet fiasco, the ASX’s James Hardie waiver and its fetish for dual-class shares are the result of decades of policy malaise and neglect of financial infrastructure.
June
Directors preach against hellfires of regulation. Don’t believe them
Planet Ark’s collapse makes yet another lie of the propaganda from Australia’s director-class that boards face unreasonable regulatory risks.
May
We are being led by numpties
A gobsmacking lack of intellectual heft in politics has us on a desperately unsustainable path, yet nobody is proposing to do anything meaningful about it.
April
ASX opens the door to the great James Hardie heist
Last week in broad daylight, the American pirates running James Hardie swept in and stole the company from its Australian shareholders. What did the ASX do?
March
WiseTech shareholders just one cheeseburger away from the void
Richard White’s blind confidence in his own understanding of people – learned from those psychology books he recommends to women on LinkedIn – is deeply misplaced.