Debt will send Australia into a recession just as surely as it did Japan last decade, according to Dr Steve Keen. The RBA is looking the wrong way.
Obscurity to uranium major in three years? You have to be impressed by Paladin. And it would seem the company’s star is still on the ascendancy.
Factories in Sichuan. Call centres in Bangalore. The first world is getting richer but its workers are not. How long can this last?
FN Arena takes a look at the latest means by which Australian investors can directly or indirectly invest in gold.
Respected commentator Marc Faber explains why the commodity boom has just begun, why the US is becoming increasingly alienated, and why you should buy gold.
Due to reader response, FN Arena delves further into the groundswell of belief that there is a world-wide conspiracy to keep the gold price down. If the theory is right, gold should at least be over US$1,000/oz.
Foster’s is no longer going to bother advertising its beer on US television. Why? Australians, and Australian media companies, have been very slow to wake up (but not all of them).
Paladin Resources, Resolute Mining, Valhalla Uranium, Summit Resources, the Queensland government, the coal industry, trade unions, the federal government and the federal opposition are just some of the protagonists locked in a battle to exploit, or not, Australia’s fifth largest uranium reserves.
As interest rates push higher the natural effect is that stocks purchased for yield become less attractive. Using sophisticated derivatives it is possible to enhance that yield.
A new price target has served to reinforce the difficulties in valuing oil companies, as discussed in our earlier feature.
