Finance

Think For Yourself: Short Term Loans

Are short term loans a good idea when you get an unexpected bill, or the first step on the path to financial ruin? Critical thinker John Turnbull takes a look [...] 
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Abbott and Hockey's budget megafail II: The revenue writedown debacle

Why has the Abbott Government’s first budget crashed so spectacularly? Can the damage be repaired? Alan Austin looks at the Joe and Tony's failure to [...] 
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Waste of space: Joe Hockey’s budget megafail all Abbott’s fault

Why has the Abbott Government’s first budget crashed so spectacularly? Can the damage be repaired? In the first part of a two part series, Alan Austin [...] 
'Rotten core of banking' exposed: Global outrage follows HSBC revelations

New details about how HSBC bank helped tax evaders and money-launderers – from political figures to celebrities to arms dealers – conceal billions of [...] 
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Here we Joh again! LNP's Strong Choices to hit families hard

The LNP’s plan to privatise assets will have a major debilitating impact upon Queensland families’ household budgets. Steve Bishop does the sums. 
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Control fraud: Australian banksters rort with impunity

There has never been a better time to be a criminal in Australia — so long as you’re a white-collar criminal in the finance industry, writes Philip Soos [...] 
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Abbott Government ignores Australia’s actual debt crisis

The Abbott Government has concocted a fake government debt crisis to ram through unpopular measures, whilst recklessly ignoring the very real private debt [...] 
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That's not a debt disaster — THIS is a debt disaster: Joe and Tony’s big con

Alan Austin presents another exclusive report the mainstream media will not touch — Australia’s rapidly escalating borrowings since Abbott and Hockey came [...] 
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Abbott and Hockey’s debt and deficit disaster

The Abbott Government has abandoned any pre-election promises to reduce Australian public debt, with borrowing and interest costs skyrocketing after their [...] 
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Why economics ignores debt: The power of Big Money

Mainstream economics is not a science, but rather a flawed, self-serving ideology — and nowhere is this more evident than in its approach to finance and [...] 
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