Tim Treadgold

Are we watching two world-class con jobs, or just another struggle between government and the free market?

Would you prefer to deposit your money in a bakery or a bank? In Australia, the bank wins every time. In Europe, some people see their local baker as a better bet than the local bank.

To understand the frightening dimension of the financial crisis unfolding in Europe you need to do two things. Firstly, think of Indonesia’s 2004 tsunami and how it devoured everything in its path.

Is Australia really an island when it comes to the economy? That’s a question with a potentially nasty answer as we fiddle with incomprehensible taxes and the rest of the world burns.

Claremont and Dumbleyung do not have much in common, except in a drought, which for the wheat-belt town is when shops shut because it hasn’t rained, and in ritzy Claremont it’s when shops shut because

Andrew Forrest has a habit of causing controversy, but his latest assault on the establishment could go much further than a headline grabbing declaration about Fortescue Metals skipping any mining tax

Australians like to think that their country is in better shape than deeply indebted Europe, but if you analyse the Qantas dispute you discover an identical set of circumstances with time the only dif

It’s taken a while but last week the European banking crisis arrived in Australia via a cancelled funding deal, a sign that raising money for resource developments is about to become a lot tougher.

Kerry Stokes probably doesn’t need an extra $500 million, but if anybody else wants to triple their money it might be time to join him on the share register of Iron Ore Holdings (IOH).