Terry McCrann

The RBA’s great dilemma

FOR 50 years, the Reserve Bank had a clear choice — fight recession or fight inflation. Now it is far more complicated, says Terry McCrann.

Tatts-Tab merger compelling for shareholders

WHERE do I sign? The merger is not just compelling for the most obvious winners — the shareholders in the target Tattersalls.

Tatts and Tab merger is in Winx territory

AFTER waving through the union of JB Hi-Fi and The Good Guys there is no way in the rational universe competition tsar Rod Sims could red light the proposed merger of Tabcorp and Tattersalls.

Packer’s mandate of heaven — or hell?

IS JAMES Packer’s multi-billion-dollar mandate of heaven about to turn into one of hell? Packer is totally ‘pot committed’ to Crown, writes Terry McCrann.

RBA home rate a misnomer

SO-CALLED “tracker mortgages” would be a very bad idea. Anyone who supports them essentially announces they do not understand how the financial system works.

Talk about bloodsucking shareholders

HERE we go again — institutional investors overwhelmingly endorsing a company’s directors while rejecting what those directors have agreed to pay top executives, as a first step to sacking those exact same directors.

The long and the short of it

IT’S taken three months but Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison might finally have turned a corner this week, writes Terry McCrann.

Past, present and future

AUSTRALIA’S richest woman Gina Rinehart has brought together two of the greatest names in the nation’s history and in its development, writes Terry McCrann.

Time to zone in on bank failings

THE three-day show trial of the CEOs of the four big banks almost certainly satisfied no one and certainly not “bank victims” imagined or indeed very real, writes Terry McCrann.

The Right Commission

ONLY one thing became crystal clear on Tuesday: if we are going to put the banking industry and individual banks under the spotlight, this is the better way to do it.