Why vulnerable is the new confident
Once a sign of weakness, it now represents courage and the ability to be real.
Michael Pascoe
Fraud on film: Why The Wolf of Wall Street is a Hollywood con job
Michael Pascoe If you’re going to rob people, fraud is the only way to go.
Dollar dazed
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Michael Pascoe The horses are back to being frightened by mis-reporting of good old HSBC flash PMI.
Michael Pascoe
RBA has to stay stoic on rates as inflation remains on the high side
Michael Pascoe Comment:It’s time to have some sympathy for the RBA.
Michael Pascoe
Bond buyers favour Italy, Spain over Australia
Michael Pascoe According to the sovereign debt market, Italian and Spanish bonds are now a better investment than Australian Commonwealth bonds. No one ever said markets have to make sense.
Michael Pascoe
Regulate bicycles off the road
Michael Pascoe A bit like smoking, if the idea of riding bicycles on the open road was invented today, it would be banned.
Michael Pascoe
Storm brewing over our rich assets
Michael Pascoe Privatisation, like so many Australian policy issues, often seems more the province of ideology than disinterested analysis.
Michael Pascoe
Where Abbott fails: pain must be seen to be shared
Michael Pascoe The government is giving the impression that it is committed to maintaining the privileges of the privileged, while whittling away at the breaks afforded the not-so-privileged.
Michael Pascoe
Putting a price on your bill-paying laziness
Michael Pascoe Here’s a New Year’s resolution that pays: Give your power company the flick to find out how much your laziness has been worth to them.
Michael Pascoe
New Zealand’s cows come home in its own commodities boom
Michael Pascoe It’s bad enough losing the rugby, but in 2014 Australians will have to suffer Kiwis getting uppity about their economy as well.
MIchael Pascoe
Why ASIC isn’t checking banks’ financial planners
Michael Pascoe I wonder if the average punter regards the cash element of his or her super fund as “wholesale money”. I suspect not.
Michael Pascoe
The op-shop guide to the Christmas market
Michael Pascoe Never mind equities, bonds, real estate and currencies, the market that counts in these last two trading days before Christmas is the opaque, insider-riven business of trading gifts.
Michael Pascoe
A barista for everyone : Why Australia's economy is looking far from bleak
Michael Pascoe A common mistake has been to describe Tuesday's MYEFO economic outlook as "bleak". For the vast majority of Australians, it's actually predicting an improvement on the present – and the present is...
Michael Pascoe
The deficit we had to have: Joe Hockey needs to drop the Santa Claus act
Michael Pascoe Presumably Joe Hockey believes these Treasury figures, so here’s the simplified bottom line.
REA
'He was underpaid': ASA's Stephen Mayne hammers Murdochs over Greg Ellis' REA exit
Michael Pascoe While the Murdoch clan rewards itself most handsomely, it seems it’s lost an extremely well-performed CEO by not paying him well enough.
Michael Pascoe
Forex strategists not moved by taper
Michael Pascoe The big event or non-event of the week is supposed to be what the US Federal Reserve decides on Wednesday night: to taper, or not to taper, that is the question.
Michael Pascoe
Downside of the mining boom: resources sector's jobs crisis
Michael Pascoe Call 2900 Holden jobs a crisis? Nah, this is a jobs crisis: 78,000 positions disappearing from resources construction over the next four years.
Resources industry construction jobs to collapse
Michael Pascoe The resources industry construction workforce is set to collapse over the next four years, plunging 91 per cent and shedding more than 78,000 jobs by 2018, dwarfing the Holden closure job losses.
Resources
Mining construction jobs to plunge by 78,000, study finds
Michael Pascoe The resources industry construction workforce is set to collapse over the next four years.
The business week that was
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Michael Pascoe A week dominated by some rational policy outcomes handled in irrational ways and the usual self-serving hypocrisy on both sides of politics.
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The government got it half right
Michael Pascoe It hasn’t been the best week for the Federal Government – behind in the opinion polls already and copping plenty of unfriendly headlines.
