Exporters are suffering as the Australian dollar heads upwards of 81 US cents for the first time in eight months, but import companies are r…
Exporters are suffering as the Australian dollar heads upwards of 81 US cents for the first time in eight months, but import companies are r…
There’s a growing sense that we’re past the half-way mark in this global downturn, meaning we’ll see a smaller number of job losses to come …
A coffee this week with an old friend, the CEO of a technology company, reminded me of how having an Achilles heel and a “critical number” c…
To challenge a fear raised in The Economist about deflation, this week I’ll step out of mainstream food and clothing retail to discuss the a…
As an “airport economist” you get to have some funny experiences. En route to Papua New Guinea (PNG) recently, I noticed on my Air Ni…
Industry leaders have called on Trade Minister Simon Crean to clarify comments made about the Export Grant Development Scheme, demanding con…
The other day an enormous Excel spreadsheet arrived in my inbox. “Here’s our annual plan,” announced the email proudly “what do you think…
Numbers always paint pictures in our minds, and the pictures painted by scan data from retail sales is a thing of rare beauty. (Retailer loy…
Every year there’s an “X factor” – something unexpected that economists can’t put into our well crafted forecasts. Sure we can pick a tax ch…
I had an interesting question from the managing director of a shoe company, whose business it is to source and import high quality European …
The Export Market Development Grant scheme has been given a $50 million boost in the federal budget, after it was feared nearly 2000 busines…
Australian exporters have been thrown a lifeline from the Government, with Trade Minister Simon Crean reportedly securing an extra $50 milli…
