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Water woes, transport troubles
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | Energy, power bills and health costs can keep anyone awake at night, but business people are also troubled by productivity and skills needs .
Look eastward, not inward
| Alan Carroll
Navel gazing Australia is paying too much attention to its messy 2010 election outcome, and too little to important regional economic trends.
Left right out of the political divide
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | The first casualty in election campaigns is truth
You don’t know how good it is
| Chris Richardson
Chris Richardson | Recent tax cuts mean taxpayers are paying the smallest share of their wages as personal taxes than Australia has had in decades.
China slowdown improves outlook
| Kevin chinneryBRW | What does the much reported ‘slowdown’ of China’s economy mean, and do Australians need to worry about it very much?
The psychological factor
| Phil Ruthven. Phil Ruthven Chairman IBISWorldThe global financial crisis tumble across the world economy in 2009 was more of an assets crash than a gross domestic product one, bad as the GDP falls were in many OECD countries....
China slowdown is for the good
| Kevin Chinnery. Associate Editor BRWWhat does the much reported slowdown of China’s economy mean and do Australians need to worry about it very much?...
A great bunch of economic buddies
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | While the US and European Union are weighed down by debt, the Asian region is going from strength to strength.
We can’t rely on luck
| Chris Richardson
Chris Richardson | Australia may consider itself the lucky country but recent economic failures in other nations should be a reminder that relying on luck is not a long-term policy.
The case for urban restraint
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | As most tables of liveable cities show, the more manageable the population, the higher the quality of life.
China’s rural evolution
| Alan Caroll
China is now home to four of the world’s 10 biggest banks by market value.
Risk-reward gap too narrow
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | As disturbing as the narrow yield gap between active and passive assets is the year-to-year volatility of asset classes and the ever-changing pecking order.
Governing principles
| Shane Oliver
History provides little reason to think the outcome of next month’s election will have a lasting impact on the sharemarket.
Taking tax too far
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | Taxation has fallen off the radar for Australian businesses, but with the global movement of corporations, governments can’t push it too far.
House of the rising risk
| chris richardson
Chris Richardson | Australia may not have a housing price bubble, but the nation does face housing price risks.
Corker of a challenge
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | The local wine industry has progressed to be the sixth-largest volume producer in the world, although China may well have overtaken this.
To cut or not to cut
| Kevin chinnery
Post-crisis priorities are a case of where you stand – literally.
New age spending
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | In 1900, when the Australian economy was a third of the way into its Industrial Age, 62 per cent of household income was spent on goods from retail outlets.
Sunshine state obscured by clouds
| Chris Richardson
Chris Richardson | The lingering effects of the financial crisis are hurting Queensland more than the other states.
Life on the fringes
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | The advent of fast-growing service industries and the internet has enabled Australia’s population to spread out to where it prefers to live.
China demands attention
| Alan Carroll
The recent symbolic visits of the two men likely to be China’s next top leaders have important implications for Australia.
Waving not drowning
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | The information tsunami is upon us; and our choice is to run for cover or try to float, sink or swim.
Is Keynes dead?
| Chris Richardson
Chris Richardson | The general agreement is that the globe’s Keynesian stomp on the accelerator turned around a rapidly deteriorating situation.
New age, better age
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | Although each age is welcome in giving us new industries and greater wealth, the one that follows is even better.
Allocate assets to improve returns
| Shane Oliver
Should you invest in global shares, Australian shares, global bonds, unlisted property, or cash?
Profits tax punishes the heroes
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | Mining is, of course, a hero industry, and 2010 is an election year, all of which make the tax debate more shrill.
Suburbs outdo Rich 200
| Chris Richardson
Chris Richardson | Suburban families have outperformed the Rich 200 in the past couple of years.
Dangerous world of debt
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | The Greek crisis was about that nation’s deadly cocktail of dangerously high public debt and massive budget deficits.