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The economy: I see the bad moon a-risin'. I see trouble on the way…

Respected economist Chris Richardson sees a bad moon a-risin’. If data this week is worse than expected, there will be a bad moon on the rise, but this could be good news for interest rate worriers.

Slow down, you move too fast Burkey

Balanced politicians tell Workplace Minister Tony Burke to get on his bike and come up with a better solution for gig workers and other contractors than what he’s racing to get through.

Beware! Treasurers around the country have their eye on your hip pocket and they’ll shrink it if they can!

While coal companies have been given a right royal slugging, federal and state treasurers will be prowling for every opportunity to collect tax anywhere they can to repair their post-pandemic budgets.

Au revoir, Dr Phil. We hope you’ve gifted us a soft landing

Bonjour, Michele Bullock. Along with other Aussies who need rate relief, I hope I’ll be able to sing your praises one day.

What’s at the back of Burke’s $9 billion industrial relations bombshell?

These $9 billion worth of workplace changes have got bosses hopping mad. What’s Bulldozer Burke’s cunning plan?

Will Treasurer Jim’s money support for low income Aussies be inflationary and stop rate cuts?

This month, the Treasurer will start the process of spreading billions of dollars to low-income Australians to help offset the rising cost of living. But will this help slow the arrival of falling interest rates?

The life and troubled times of Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest

Losing your CEO and CFO in one week is always bound to unsettle the share price of a listed company. Will Twiggy’s baby, Fortescue, escape the wrath of the stock market?

Under mortgage stress? Call your bank and ask for help!

ASIC has warned lenders to look after borrowers in trouble because of the 12 rate rises since May last year.

Businesses search for smaller and/or cheaper offices with staff working from home but where are these places?

It’s tale of two types of businesses: the high flyers who can pay high rents and the Pandemic-affected low flyers who are feeling stretched.

Is Dan Andrews an honest politician or a self-serving exaggerator?

Who’s incompetent here with such a massive Commonwealth Games blowout? Was the blowout from $2.5 billion to $7 billion a miscalculation or an exaggeration?

Australians to live in and close to our cities

A new government report could be a gamechanger and speed up what I call the ‘Manhattanisation’ of our capital cities.

Expert report predicts decades of doom & gloom. Bah humbug!

Our future looks shocking according to a new Intergenerational Report, but the experts are often wrong. Do we really need to worry?

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