Six earth-shaking hours
The US Fed’s ‘dot points’, supposedly predicting rate cuts, stirred up the markets bigtime. But they’re well known for their inability to forecast the future.
Terry McCrann
PM and a team of incompetents
From destroying the electricity system to overseeing a growing migration crisis, Labor’s ministry of incompetents have proven to be way out of their depth.
Why Bullock half pivoted
All eyes will turn to Thursday’s potentially explosive unemployment numbers after the RBA’s ‘half pivot’ on Tuesday.
RBA’s risky business on rates decision
For the first time since the 1990s, the RBA is making an interest rate decision the day before the release of the ABS’ quarterly GDP figures.
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Qantas-Qatar debacle exposes government’s dysfunction
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Wasting $10bn to make housing shortage worse
It takes a particular combination of stupidity and deliberate malevolence to keep fuelling the flames of the housing and rental shortages with out-of-control, immigration.
Qantas media hysteria flies past reality
Here’s the truth about Qantas and its former CEO Alan Joyce which should bury the unrestrained hysteria of the past week.
Joyce attacks have no basis
All the attacks on Alan Joyce are silly and ‘miss the mark’ by billions of dollars when he should really be getting applause for building and saving Qantas.
Missing ‘whales’ whack Aussie casinos
You’d be brave to suggest that Chinese billionaires, or even mere multi-millionaires, will be coming back to gamble in Australia’s casinos any time soon.
Twiggy’s new CEO on notice
It’s tough working for the billionaire man. It might get even tougher with a future China.
Jim’s big report: Worse than useless
The new Intergenerational Report will sink like a stone, like all its predecessors and no-one will ever look at it again, just like the Business Council’s ‘grand plan’, released on Monday.
Shoppers the real winners of the supermarket wars
Coming out of Covid, who’s been winning the great and seemingly eternal battle in the supermarket aisles. The latest profit reports from Coles and Woolworths provide an unambiguous answer.
Why BHP’s future is Australia’s future
BHP’s profit and its outlook tells us as much about Australia and its prospects as it does about the company – and the outlook for the next year and rest of the decade looks challenging.
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