Underemployment and jobs where people earn barely enough money to put food on the table isn't growth.

The Missing Trio in Today's Jobs Report

This could be a good thing because the majority of investment was directed towards mining and there are already enough mines in Australia. Over-mining is not a good thing. We don't need to export more. Price drops but more importantly, we should ...

Australia Gives Up on Australia as Investment Dwindles

mmforexinfo I think you'll have to rethink your theory Children will need daycare, food, clothes, toys, education etc so they add to consumption.... Also, new migrants will work and produce something so they won't just take a slice of the existing ...

RBA Stevens: The Economic Scene

It will be several lost decades because they are not united. They need to print money but they shouldn't give it to the banks and boost stock market prices. Instead they should finance job creating projects and they should stop their silly arguments ...

A European Lost Decade?

It was the wrong type of stimulus all along The majority of the printed money should have been redirected to job creating projects and not to save their fellow bankers, plus boost stock prices . The job market changed, many people are forced to work ...

Larry Summers Is On to Something

The RBA won't cut interest rates further because inflation is on the upper end of their target range. Even if the RBA reduced interest rates down to zero, the greedy Australian banks aren't going to pass on the reduction to businesses. That's the ...

Australia's Jobless Rate Should Worry Fed

Increasing interest rates was premature, future reports will show an impact on retail spending as well

ANZ Business Outlook - Back to reality

Guys you are reading too much into these numbers Trade what you see and not what you read. The housing market in Australia is booming and will be for much longer due to a housing shortage and low interest rates. This is a fact and not my opinion.

Australia Building Approvals

Hard to tell,but from the type of people who are buying properties it seems so. Remember that in recent times many Ex-pat Australians returned home because of the financial issues in Europe and elsewhere plus we have the usual influx of migrants. We ...

Australia’s housing bubble ready to burst, US investment guru claims

They keep telling us this but it isn't 100% true because the majority of Australia's exports are raw materials, energy and food and are all priced in USD's

Australia’s housing bubble ready to burst, US investment guru claims

People write crap in order to promote their self interests. Property prices are where they are because of short supply (not building enough houses to keep up with population growth) and high pent up demand. We are also going through a period of very ...

Australia’s housing bubble ready to burst, US investment guru claims

You're a clown, brush up on your history and you won't be posting nonsense like this. Indians perhaps look a little different? Next you'll tell us that southern Europeans are of Chinese origin...

The European Debt Crisis Visualized

Why don't they shut up for once? Next they'll have to raise interest rates because inflation will soon be above their target rate....

AUD tumbles as RBA's Ridout talks down the currency

Stevens is a man of extremes. I think they've done a lousy job with the interest rates, first they had them too high and now too low. What are rate cuts going to do to the economy when the banks aren't passing on the cuts to the businesses?

Australia Consumer Price Index

And there is more Inflation to come because the AUD fell too much

Australia Consumer Price Index

Sure, property is expensive but where are the forces that will bring prices down? Unemployment is increasing BUT it isn't like everyone lost their job so there won't be many mortgage defaults (as the case was in US) and interest rates are very low ...

Canada Has Its Own Housing Bubble—And It’s About to Burst