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newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Oct 8, 2008
Around this time last year, Gordon Brown was facing the first economic challenge of his premiership: trying to fend off the collapse of the Northern Rock bank. The episode saw the first run on a British bank for nearly …
Also tagged: uk, featured, royal bank of scotland, gordon brown, hbos, bailout, uk bailout, nationalise banks, tim soutphommasane, financial socialism
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Oct 8, 2008
If securitised US sub-primes had not emerged as the weak link in the global financial system, some other financial product or market would have. Eventually, the underpricing of risk had to collide with innate human …
Also tagged: hero, alan greenspan, federal reserve bank, bailout, wall street crisis, wall st crisis
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Oct 8, 2008
At the beginning of this week I rated the Reserve Bank of Australia, under its saturnine head Glenn Stevens, one of the best performing central banks in the world. Australia, it seemed, would be able to ride out the …
Also tagged: hero, interest rates, recession, consumer confidence, ben eltham, glenn stevens
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Oct 7, 2008
It should have been good news. The Reserve Bank surprised everyone when it cut interest rates by one percentage point yesterday. read more
Also tagged: hero, interest rates, oil prices, bailout, reserve bank, glenn stevens, australian economy
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 25, 2008
Why is the sight of a distressed floor trader somehow more upsetting than a farmer being forced to sell up or the redundancy of employees who worked for a company for 20 plus years? read more
Also tagged: wall street, economics, featured, crash, stock market, bob dumpling
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 18, 2008
By the time you’re reading this, the rally that Australian markets had been waiting for will be on in earnest. As I file this article, trading has only just begun on the ASX but already the Australian stock market is …
Also tagged: wall street, economics, hero, crisis, bear market
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 17, 2008
Uranium mining is frequently presented as the only solution to a range of economic power security and climate change challenges. In reality, however, the uranium industry creates far more problems than it claims to …
Also tagged: economics, featured, uranium, nuclear waste, nuclear power, western australia, nuclear industry, scott ludlam
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 15, 2008
"I’m standing outside Lehman Brothers headquarters on 7th Avenue and 50th Street in New York City watching Lehman Brothers die," writes Fortune Magazine’s managing editor, Andrew Serwer. "Employees, some in suits …
Also tagged: wall street, bankruptcy, hero, panic, financial crisis, lehman brothers, ben eltham, wall street crisis
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 14, 2008
You would have to be living under a rock to have missed the Peter Costello show, now playing on a talkback radio station and broadsheet newspaper near you. The former Treasurer has been milking every last drop of …
Also tagged: innovation, hero, ben eltham, terry cutler, review of the national innovation system
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 20, 2008
Labour mobility may be in the headlines but when Kevin Rudd stepped off the plane in Niue for the Pacific Island Leaders forum this week, he had just one thing on his mind: markets. And not the colourful Pacific …
Also tagged: hero, pacific, australian politics, pacific islnds forum, flint duxfield, guest worker scheme, labour mobility