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newmatilda.com » newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Oct 14, 2008
You can gauge the kind of month it has been on the world’s financial markets by the ecstatic relief that greets a confident day’s trading. But that was yesterday. Today it looks like poor individual performances and …
Also tagged: hero, financial crisis, stimulus package, business and consumerism, christmas bonus
newmatilda.com » 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, business and consumerism, glenn stevens
newmatilda.com » 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, business and consumerism, wall street crisis
newmatilda.com » 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, business and consumerism, terry cutler, review of the national innovation system
newmatilda.com » newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 8, 2008
The latest installment in Professor Ross Garnaut’s tortuous journey through the travails of climate change policy was released on Friday. Entitled Targets and Trajectories, it is officially a supplementary addendum to …
Also tagged: hero, great barrier reef, global footprint, garnaut report, murray darlinf, targets and trajectories
newmatilda.com » newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 24, 2008
As any decent PR hack will tell you, if you want to get your brand all over the media without too much effort, just release a report on a touchy subject that says exactly what you want it to say. read more
Also tagged: media, hero, housing, banks, quality of life, media and culture, bankwest
newmatilda.com » newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 19, 2008
Matthew Connolly is an historian at Columbia University whose new book, Fatal Misconception, looks at the disturbing history of government-sponsored population policies. newmatilda.com spoke to him on his recent visit …
Also tagged: history, population control, civil society, matthew connolly
newmatilda.com » newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 10, 2008
It was Jean-Baptiste Colbert who first uttered the immortal words, "The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least possible amount of hissing". Colbert knew a thing or …
Also tagged: hero, business and consumerism, tax review, jean baptiste colbert, ken henry, henry review
newmatilda.com » newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Jul 30, 2008
The Australian climate change debate chugs on. While the Government meets hundreds of lobbyists arguing for special assistance and free carbon permits, the public, meanwhile, appears to have taken its own position …
Also tagged: climate change, renewable energy, energy policy, liberal party, global footprint, australian politics, brendan nelson
newmatilda.com » newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Jul 27, 2008
Last Thursday, Wayne Swan and Tanya Plibersek launched the National Rental Affordability Scheme. The $623 million scheme aims to increase the supply of affordable rental dwellings by 50,000 by 2012. One of Labor’s …
Also tagged: hero, housing, civil society, housing crisis, australian politics, national rental affordability scheme