It is set to rank as one of greatest contributions to technology but the Americans quickly saw the potential of Synchron’s brain-computer. It is now based in the US and has deals with Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Nvidia.
Banks that helped Brookfield buy Healthscope with loans of almost $2bn must be bitter. My warning to them is to be very wary when dealing with giant private equity groups that take big risks and can rebound on financiers.
The US economy needs our terbium and other key rare earths to operate, and it’s totally dependent on China. Donald Trump needed to do a deal, and fast.
Tim Wilson took advantage of Jim Chalmers’ horrific and unfair tax on unrealised gains to clinch the Goldstein seat, despite the Liberal Party’s hefty election losses around the country.
China was a major beneficiary of globalisation, so will be looking for ways to salvage parts of the model. Australia will do the same.
The Albanese government’s re-election honeymoon will be over soon, with its controversial superannuation policy set to trigger billions in withdrawals. There are also Trump-related market dangers.
Forecast budget deficits and Albanese’s election spendathon will coalesce just as two other unstoppable forces hit, forcing every working Australian to re-examine their job.
Albanese’s big win heralds revolutionary changes to business and savings that amount to an unprecedented attack. The Coalition failed to highlight this and so deserves the ravaging in the polls.
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton’s election promises will require big tax rises or substantial spending cuts. If that doesn’t happen, Australia’s AAA credit rating is in danger.
It is incredible in our democracy that we could have an election campaign with a vicious tax that will hurt 2.5 million people on the table and not see the Coalition embrace it as a major issue.
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