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Comment & Analysis
The way Australian billionaires earn their wealth
Matt Wade 1:26 AM Australia has a disproportionate share of the world's billionaires.
Adele Ferguson
Investors discover value accountants ignore
Adele Ferguson 7:18 PM Investors are starting to realise some of the most important measures of a successful company.
Comment
PwC advises multinationals 'read the play'
Nassim Khadem Multinationals will still strategise how to pay less tax in the new political landscape, just with a new spin.
How losing trust hurts the economy
Clancy Yeates No prizes for guessing which job has suffered the biggest slump in public trust over the last couple of years.
Elizabeth Knight
NBN gets hospital pass from Shorten
Elizabeth Knight So Labor is going to rework both the technology and rollout of the NBN if it wins. Is this a threat or a promise?
Opinion
Alarm bells ringing for super
Adele Ferguson It's time to protect people from their self-managed financial demise.
Opinion
RBA won't generate another economic boom
Jessica Irvine Households needed a bit more help, and they got it. But the RBA is waiting to see if more is needed.
The policy failure that costs us most
Michael Pascoe The election circus rolls on, while both parties carefully avoid the problem that will become an ever-greater drag on the nation's future.
How to lose half a billion dollars very fast
Elizabeth Knight Want to know how to wipe out more than $500 million of value in six months? Ask once market darling turned disaster SurfStitch.
Opinion
Volunteers: our economy depends on them
Harold Mitchell It should never become a choice between professionals and volunteers.
Interest rate rigging - three down, one to go?
Elizabeth Knight With three of the major Australian banks now allegedly in the frame for rigging wholesale interest rates,  the finance industry is now holding its breath.
RBA's vote of confidence in Turnbull
Peter Martin This is one of the oddest endorsements you'll see this election campaign.
Adele Ferguson
Farmers call for chairman's head
Adele Ferguson The drums are getting louder for the ousting of the leadership at Murray Goulburn.
Michael Pascoe
RBA rings house price warning – again
Michael Pascoe The RBA's jawbone has just been re-applied to those who want to speculate on housing. You've been warned.
Elizabeth Knight
ASX walks tightrope between innovation and dot.com-style disasters
Elizabeth Knight The ASX's memory of the dot.com bubble is recent enough that it doesn't want to allow a repeat.
Michael Pascoe
Herd turns into doves come August
Michael Pascoe It will be no surprise if the Reserve Bank board decides to leave the cash rate steady at its meeting on Tuesday – that's the opinion of 23 of the 24 economists polled by Bloomberg.
Forgotten finance victims need action
Adele Ferguson It is time for a compensation fund for people whose trust is betrayed.
Michael Pascoe
What's wrong with Woolies, by the man who once saved it
Michael Pascoe The man who pulled Woolworths back from the brink in the 1980s knows what's wrong with it now.
Is this company lost at sea?
Elizabeth Knight It was a market darling, now this listed player has morphed into a corporate mystery.
Why we need to pay teachers more
Harold Mitchell Education is critical to who and what we are, and it's time we invested in it.
Michael Pascoe
NSW still winning where it counts
Michael Pascoe Save your Origin tears NSW, here's a game where you're miles in front.
Opinion
Is Elon Musk the Willy Wonka of the car world?
James Quinn Tesla's founder is selling the future, dreams big, and to date has, despite some production delays, made them happen for a relatively small few.
House price soufflé is rising again
Elizabeth Knight When the RBA cut interest rates last month there was always a risk that it might reinflate the housing bubble.
Air NZ's very costly dummy spit
Adele Ferguson Virgin Australia tipped to raise $1 billion to pour more misery on its Kiwi shareholder.
Fancy dress regulators must go
Andrew Schmulow It is well past time that real action was taken to clean up the financial sector.
Elizabeth Knight
Why private equity ate all the pies
Elizabeth Knight Patties Foods has gone from damaged goods to top of the private equity shopping list in less than a year.
Mal Maiden
Buy, hold, and wait. And be surprised
Malcolm Maiden Decades of covering the markets shows that for investors, buy and hold is the default. This is Mal Maiden's last column for Fairfax Media.
Super's life insurance a 'joke'
Adele Ferguson Thousands of people are relying on life insurance that is worthless.
Ross Gittins
Company tax cut? More like foreign aid
Ross Gittins Economists are meant to be too hard-headed to believe in the existence of a magic bullet.
