Diesel denim empire got off to an Aussie start
Renzo Rosso hasn't forgotten a favour that put Diesel on the fashion map.
Michael West
Michael West comments on companies, markets and the economy. He is a former SMH business editor.
Real returns from Gorgon project likely to be half official projections
Michael West The maiden cargo of natural gas from the gigantic Gorgon project off the coast of Western Australia set sail for Japan last week.
Michael West
Why should taxpayers guarantee Macquarie's junk bond binge?
Michael West Why should we be subsidising Macqaurie Bank's plunge into high stakes world of junk debt.
Michael West
ATO's private company list kicks up more questions about artistry of tax arrangements
Michael West Just $2 billion net tax on total income of $145 billion. What a time to be alive.
Wall Street financiers are back in Australia offering US mortgage pools again
Michael West They must have the seven year itch. Wall Street financiers are back enticing Aussie mums and dads with the exciting opportunity to invest in pools of US mortgages.
Michael West
Sold short: Are the hedge funds having a lend on super?
Michael West Is it wrong for super funds to lend their shares so smart-alec hedge funds can make a buck by sabotaging the share price?
Michael West
Taxis and Uber will fight it out over new ground
Michael West Cabs as couriers is so obvious, surely somebody else has thought of it.
The never-ending money laundering review
Michael West Rarely has a finalisation process taken so long to finalise.
The cat is out of the bag on corporate tax avoidance
Michael West The business lobby has a credibility problem, and the BCA and others need to address it.
Card giant MasterCard lowers local tax bill
Michael West Global credit card giant MasterCard paid $4.3 million in tax to the Australian Taxation Office for the year to December 2014.
Michael West
Sub-standard plan for Defence
Michael West You'll get more detail from an aspiring Chinese dairy company than our government.
Michael West
Coal advisers dig us a hole
Michael West The beauty of being an economic consultant, is you get paid regardless of whether you are right or wrong
Our banks are beyond the law
Michael West The rate-rigging scandal is a key test of our system.
Digging a deeper hole for coal
Michael West Why would governments sabotage a major export by contributing to the glut?
Come on! There's nothing passive about AusSuper's operation
Michael West Glamorous ad campaigns and glitzy sponsorships were once the domain of the retail super funds, the big-fee, bank-owned money managers.
Michael West
PPP plundering takes its toll on love
Michael West Once again, on this Valentine's weekend, we are reminded of the price of love.
Consumers are subsidising the unprofitable coal seam gas industry
Michael West After all the heartache, trenchant opposition from local communities and a towering $1.8 billion in write-downs, AGL has jettisoned its coal seam gas program.
Dick Smith float looks like window dressing
Michael West There are plenty of questions to be answered about the failed chain's financial health when it was sold to shareholders.
Awards for a year of missteps
Michael West From Slater & Gordon to Dick Smith, Chevron to Macquarie, Michael West hands out gongs for 2015.
Corporate tax avoidance bill may deliver little more than hefty fees for tax lawyers
Michael West There will be much "restructuring" going on right now at the big end of town. Under the government's corporate tax avoidance bill, which passed into law last Thursday, 281 private companies are...
