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Keep your shirt on. The world as we know it may be ending, but if so it won't be for a while. And maybe things won't change as much as feared.

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Donald Trump is a demagogue but not ultimately a fool. The calculated trade is to bet on optimism.

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Wednesday's marked the day of the shareholder revenge - shareholders democracy in action.

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The rise in anti-establishment sentiment is not a US phenomenon, political culture is the product of our time.

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The GFC was quite scary at times. President Trump worries me much more.

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You know the hordes complaining about credit card interest rates of 22 or 23 per cent? They don't know what high interest rates are.

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While shareholders got their fix this time around they should really start to wonder how sustainable this shareholder generosity is beyond the 2016 financial year.

They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes, but the concept of certainty is at the core of the issue confronting beleaguered dairy processor Murray Goulburn.

Dickens could teach Turnbull much about fiscal repair.

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Only days before share trading begins for the $1.1 billion float of Inghams, its lead managers would  be in a tailspin.

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John Ibrahim knows the Caltex franchise business better than most. He also knows that underpayment of wages is getting worse.

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The disease known as 'confirmation bias' is endemic among economists.

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Does all that late study really make a lot of difference in the end? Sure it helps you pass but I doubt it makes you any smarter.

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The east coast housing boom is feeding on itself – an expectation of higher prices because prices are higher.

Woolworths have a history of very poor form when it comes to treatment of suppliers – both large and small.

Here we go again. This time it is oil giant Caltex embroiled in allegations of worker exploitation happening across a national franchise network of more than 650 stores.

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What if we were on the cusp of the biggest advance in productivity in centuries and didn't recognise it?

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Did you know our social security system is so open to rorting that it's possible for some people to get more from benefits than they'd earn if they took a job? And we wonder why we have problem with debt and deficit.

On Friday, the Paris climate change agreement comes into legal force. It signals profound changes to energy and resources markets that, frankly, a lot of companies look woefully unprepared for.

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Behind the typically bland language used by RBA governor Philip Lowe to explain Tuesday's decision to keep the cash rate on hold lies a belief that things are about to pick up.

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The consensus is that we are stuck in a low inflation world for as far as the eye can see.

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Malcolm Turnbull's government have had it's political priorities clearly sorted over the weekend.

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Record low airfares have knocked some of the gloss off Qantas' profit since June, and its first-half result won't match last year's bumper result.

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People making a miserable return on their savings accounts aren't the only ones losing patience with very low interest rates.

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Ardent Leisure copped stick in many quarters over its desire to reopen the Dreamworld amusement park on Friday.

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This isn't about one or two bad apples, this is about systems capabilities, governance oversights.

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The Turnbull government's voluntary tax transparency code should be dumped.

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At first glance, Treasurer Scott Morrison's speech on housing affordability might look like an improvement on his predecessor's "get a job, a job that pays well" advice. It's not.

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Tracker home loans could put an end to the tiresome cat-and-mouse game on mortgage pricing that follows every change in official interest rates.

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The $107 billion charity sector is a sacred cow, but also a black box.