Australian bonds gain along with U.S. Treasuries due to escalating trade war worries
Aug 09, 2018 03:59 am UTC| Commentary Economy
Australian government bonds gained across the board on Thursday after China retaliated with USD16 billion tariffs on U.S. imported goods, injecting more fear in investors about a full-fledged trade war between the U.S. and...
Funding basic research plays the long game for future payoffs
Aug 08, 2018 13:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The Senate recently proposed to increase the research budgets of the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and NASA. While this is encouraging to the many scientists whose research is dependent on...
Americans, stop obsessing over GDP
Aug 08, 2018 13:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The Bureau of Economic Analysis on July 27 released the GDP growth rate for the second quarter of 2018: 4.1 percent. GDP or gross domestic product is the rate at which the total value of goods and services produced in...
Trump needs a US-EU trade deal or Facebook, Amazon and Google could lose dominance
Aug 08, 2018 13:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Donald Trump recently stepped back from the brink of a trade war with the EU. Following a visit to the White House by the European Commission chief, Jean Claude Juncker, the two leaders issued a joint statement where they...
In a year of takeover defences, what impacts do these tactics have on shareholders?
Aug 08, 2018 12:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Its becoming the year of defence in Australian mergers and acquisition, with varying and fascinating defence tactics on display over the past six months. Perhaps the most brazen defence this year in Australia was...
Making small cities bigger will help better distribute Australia's 25 million people
Aug 08, 2018 12:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The knowledge economy has concentrated skilled people in large cities such as Melbourne. This has meant such cities take most of Australias jobs, leading to what has been dubbed agglomeration economies where knowledge and...
Capital gains and why they matter – a tax expert explains
Aug 08, 2018 11:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Law
The Trump administration wants to change the way capital gains are taxed to factor in inflation. To many, this may sound like a technical change of little consequence. To others, such as the Tax Policy Centers Len...
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