Alan Greenspan and his ship of fools

20 Jan 2012 | Recently released transcripts show the US Federal Reserve was completely ignorant that the world ...  

Occupy the neighbourhood

16 Jan 2012 | An electronic database called MERS has created defects in the chain of title to over half the ...  

NAB and Westpac almost collapsed during the GFC

11 Jan 2012 |  

Australian banks and Dodd-Frank

10 Jan 2012 | In the first of a two-part series on financial regulation, Sandra Hajda looks at whether Australia ...  

EU economics has screwed the pooch

26 Dec 2011 | In making his financial predictions for international markets in 2012, prominent investment ...  

IA EXCLUSIVE: The NAB versus Matt Norman

21 Dec 2011 | Prominent Australian actor and international award winning filmmaker Matt Norman tells the story ...  

Australia does have a housing market bubble

17 Dec 2011 | It’s one of the mostly hotly debated topics surrounding property: do Australia’s high resid ...  

The financial and moral bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers

16 Dec 2011 | The lesson from Lehman Brothers' fiduciary duty failures is that control of credit should not be ...  

The remarkable political stupidity of Wall Street

13 Dec 2011 | [caption id="attachment_12473" align="alignright" caption="by Professor Robert Reich"][/caption ...  

The great money delusion

11 Dec 2011 | “Money – or the lack of it – lies close to the root of most evils plaguing us as a species ...  

Big banks avoid gouging claims by passing on RBA interest rate cuts in full

9 Dec 2011 | All four big banks have passed on the Reserve Bank of Australia’s 0.25% interest rate cut to ...  

Gap between rich and poor widens in developed nations

6 Dec 2011 | New report shows trickledown economics doesn’t work, as gap between rich and poor increases ...  

Wall Street Banks received secret Fed loans worth $7.7 trillion before GFC

29 Nov 2011 | Travis Waldron from Think Progress says Wall Street banks received huge secret payments from the ...  

Bank lobbyists secret plan to discredit Occupy Wall Street

22 Nov 2011 | Washington lobbyists crafted an $850,000 plan for the banking industry to discredit the Occupy ...  

Too Big to Jail

6 Nov 2011 | [caption id="attachment_11438" align="alignright" caption="Robert Rubin (Photo: Center for Amer ...  

Michael Moore talks about life among the one per cent

1 Nov 2011 | Michael Moore is one of the world’s most successful documentary makers. Despite his wealth, he ...  

Bank of America: the worst of the worst

29 Oct 2011 | [caption id="attachment_11167" align="alignright" caption="Bank of America security blocks a ...  

Occupy the stock market

28 Oct 2011 | The Occupy protestors should focus themselves on stock-market traders, whose main job is to leech ...