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IAG makes a big profit and tells us our premiums are set to rise higher!

Despite a big jump in profit, insurer IAG is set to keep up the rising pressure on the premiums we pay. Why is this so?

Is the RBA bluffing on rates or deadly serious?

With the Reserve Bank board’s August minutes released, is Governor Bullock trying to ‘spook’ us into not spending or simply playing it straight that rates cuts are off the table this year?

Cash isn’t king for banks

The old maxim of business was “cash is king” but in a post-Covid world, our big banks want to declare “the king is dead, long live the card!” Where is this all heading?

Switzer Investing TV | 19th August 2024

AFR’s Chris Joye predicts the future of rates, stocks and bonds!

Can the RBA afford to ignore the business failures in NSW?

At a time when economists are squabbling over whether it’s time for the RBA to cut interest rates, the number of small business failures in the country’s biggest state of NSW has to be a concern that shouldn’t be ignored.

Higher energy bills can show us how to make money

Origin Energy had reported brilliantly but its share price has fallen over 9%. So don’t expect lower energy prices in the future. The question is this: are Origin shares a buy?

Is it time to deal with this deadbeat dad debt debacle?

Former trailblazing politician Amanda Vanstone wants a system change where the long-term consequences of ‘the quick moment’ of unprotected sex leaves the mother and the taxpayer holding the baby.

Is the economy in a scary Twilight Zone?

Read this article with the key of concentration. Beyond the ‘false’ calls is another dimension: a dimension of data, a dimension of doubt, a dimension of unemployment, a dimension of debt. You’re moving into a land of both shadows and facts; you've just crossed over into the Economic Twilight Zone.

Why haven’t 13 rate rises knocked out the Aussie consumer?

According to the CBA, the knockout blow for the big spending Aussie consumer is on the way. Let’s hope the RBA can see this hit to spending coming.

Switzer Investing TV | 12th August 2024

After the big stocks set off last week, what shares are in the buy zone?

Gambling advertisements to go – you can bet on that

Given the weight of the influential Australians backing the ban or reduction in gambling advertising, it looks pretty certain that change is about to happen.

This profit-busting company needs regulation

Too many big companies in Australia take their customers for a ride. What can be done about this?

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