Since 1997, when it floated on the sharemarket, Amazon has evolved into one of the century's greatest wealth-generating machines. It's become so powerful researchers have built a Death by Amazon index of companies it leaves in its wake.
Do you realise the Reserve Bank board hasn't changed Australia's official interest rate from 1.5 per cent for almost a year? But that hasn't stopped people in the financial markets from speculating furiously about whether rates are about to go down – or go up.
When it comes to the distribution of GST revenue, the Commonwealth Government must defend the important Australian Federation principle of equal treatment.
Australia's retail and video streaming companies should be shivering with fear at Amazon's latest earnings result.
There is a lesson here for our governments and parents. Just get on with giving our kids high-quality early education.
Opec, Russia and Big Oil thought they had half a century to prepare for the end of the internal combustion engine. At best they have a decade.
It wasn't that long ago - in the scheme of things - that technology, in a business context, to many (misguided people) meant 'IT department'. Now tech permeates everything.
If you were searching for reasons for stubbornly low wages growth, you'd think executive incentives and the decline of unionism would rate a mention.
For all those punters panicking about the prospects of an interest rate increase, the latest inflation data should allow them the opportunity to chill.
Standard procedure for gormless politicians is to tax by stealth. So it is with infrastructure levies on new housing.
It's a disturbing new trend playing havoc with Australian workers.
One could be forgiven for thinking there was something sinister going on.
Resources Minister Matt Canavan seems to have set out to prove we're not at rock bottom yet.
Keeping its perch at the top of the advertising roost is going to get harder.
The size and wealth of the beast means Bill Shorten could find himself facing a battle that would make the anti-mining tax fight look mild.
The Ed Sheeran cameo didn't help things, either.
Behind the demise of the pseudo-economic belief that what's good for big business is good for the economy.
Surely, launching an inquiry into the sector isn't that hard.
Despite the scare stories about the rise of the "gig economy", full-time jobs growth is surging.
The only thing preventing an even more catastrophic fall in Myer's share price is Solomon Lew.
Don't laugh. There are important lessons in the unlikely story of how the world came to mitigate the effects of a ticking time bomb under modern civilisation.
Share valuations are higher than they were in mid-2008 and are exactly where they were before the great crash in October 1929. These are disturbing thoughts. Yet it takes a catalyst to trigger such events.
The Brits are about to face a grim reality - being part of Europe is much less painful than being estranged from it.
Regardless of the series of body blows that Myer announced on Thursday, chief executive Richard Umbers is sticking to the transformation plan.
The banks and their shareholders exhaled a collective sigh of relief when the financial regulator pronounced that they were pretty damn close to being 'unquestionably strong'.
There are limits to what can be achieved by promoting more choice in the superannuation sector.
Ellerston Capital, the investment company in which Packer retains a 25 per cent stake, has emerged with more than 5 per cent of Star.
Medibank's CEO appears to be playing the PR game of blame-someone-else-for-your-challenges.
Last week saw the launch of "MAGAnomics" - a new attempt to put the economy at the forefront of the American presidency.
There's something strange about our relationships with our banks. We'll change supermarkets, even phone companies, but when it comes to our financial affairs, we're more faithful than Red Dog.
Little boys all over the world are growing up with a warped sense of what it means to be male.
A diverse range of Aussie craft beers have been recognised as the best of the best.
The female entrepreneurs creating shoes that are comfortable and cool.
Research has called into question the value of adolescents being employed during their formative years.
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