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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, featured, crash, stock market, business and consumerism, 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, hero, crisis, bear market, business and consumerism
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: featured, uranium, nuclear waste, nuclear power, western australia, nuclear industry, business and consumerism, scott ludlam
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 13, 2008
In these heady days of singing breaststrokers and funky dead Scientologists, it can be all too easy to forget that the most important thing in life is money. There is a lot of economic "doom and gloom" around the place …
Also tagged: finance, hero, satire, credit crunch, business and consumerism, ben pobjie
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 4, 2008
Six months after coming to power in the 1996 federal election, John Howard’s Coalition government dismantled the final part of Paul Keating’s push towards a national employees’ superannuation scheme founded on 15 per …
Also tagged: hero, unfinished business, australian politics, superannuation, paul keating, david love
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Jun 26, 2008
It’s that time of the year again. No, I don’t mean tax time (although it is, of course, tax time too). Rather, it’s the time well known to bureaucrats in all manner of government departments: the time when, at the end …
Also tagged: australia, funding, hero, bureaucracy, federal politics, australian politics, business and consumerism, ben eltham
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - May 14, 2008
Ever since the new Parliament first sat in February, media commentators have been buzzing about Wayne Swan’s performances in the House, sternly warning that Budget night would be a very high bar to leap. Pundits …
Also tagged: media, labor, featured, budget 2008, kevin rudd, peter costello, federal politics, australian politics, wayne swan, paul keating, commentariat
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Apr 9, 2008
John Button showed Australians what they were capable of, inspiring the nation when it was in crisis. It is due to the work of the former Labor Senator, who died of cancer yesterday, that we have a small but efficient …
Also tagged: industry, featured, tariffs, federal politics, australian politics, labor government, paul keating
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Apr 8, 2008
Despite a few hiccups and burps from that jittery little market, few would argue that Australia is in a state of economic bliss and prosperity. The Australian Bureau of Statistics finds that we are richer and more …
Also tagged: money, featured, satire, interest rates, yuppies, business and consumerism
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Mar 20, 2008
If you have been following the financial news, you will have seen the name Bear Sterns a lot lately. The fifth biggest investment bank on Wall Street passed into history over the weekend, first rushing to the US …
Also tagged: featured, reserve bank