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Why vulnerable is the new confident
Once a sign of weakness, it now represents courage and the ability to be real.
Michael Pascoe If you’re going to rob people, fraud is the only way to go.
Michael Pascoe The horses are back to being frightened by mis-reporting of good old HSBC flash PMI.
Michael Pascoe Comment:It’s time to have some sympathy for the RBA.
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 A bit like smoking, if the idea of riding bicycles on the open road was invented today, it would be banned.
Michael Pascoe Privatisation, like so many Australian policy issues, often seems more the province of ideology than disinterested analysis.
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 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 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 I wonder if the average punter regards the cash element of his or her super fund as “wholesale money”. I suspect not.
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 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 Presumably Joe Hockey believes these Treasury figures, so here’s the simplified bottom line.
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 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 Call 2900 Holden jobs a crisis? Nah, this is a jobs crisis: 78,000 positions disappearing from resources construction over the next four years.
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.
Michael Pascoe The resources industry construction workforce is set to collapse over the next four years.
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.
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.
Once a sign of weakness, it now represents courage and the ability to be real.
Two chains are battling it out to claim this honour.
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