Perth commentator Tim Treadgold is one of the state's highest-profile business journalists. He brings decades of experience to Business News, offering readers sharp and insightful analysis of current events and breaking news.
Martin Ferguson is not a baby, but when the Federal Resources Minister let slip an obvious fact last week, that: “the resources boom is over”, it was a classic example of the old saying about truth co
Critics of the proposed $40 billion Browse Basin gas project in the Kimberley would be unwise to see Chevron’s exit as a sign that the project is in trouble.
Most people see low interest rates as a blessing. But, hold them close to 0 per cent for long enough and they become a curse, as investors in Europe and the U.S.
No-one expects business to apply a national interest test when it comes to making money but, in the case of Chinese investment in Australia such a test must be applied until China changes its ways.
Spain and Germany combined last night to refresh the chilling warning from Nouriel Roubini that the world is heading into a perfect economic storm, though there are also signs that the storm might be
It is an odd comparison, but there is a link between waiting for the sun to rise in the morning, and waiting for the Australian Government to admit that it will fail to deliver its often promised budg
High wage demands, according to two senior Australian Government ministers are bad for the economy, but high taxes in the form of the carbon and mining tax, are not.
Unless we have entered a parallel universe where economic forces work in reverse there really is only one way for the Australian dollar, and Perth property prices to go, and that is up.
It would be unwise for anyone to expect the election of a new government in Greece to produce more than short-term respite from the spiral of decline which is gripping Europe, and which could yet tip