Finance
In bankruptcy court they hang you before your appeal

When you are declared bankrupt, the court doesn’t wait for the appeals process to be exhausted ...  
The party people of Wall Street

'The last three decades have witnessed a carefully calculated heist worthy of Robert Redford and ...  
Tess Lawrence versus McKean Park Lawyers and the NAB

Contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence fronts the Federal Court in Melbourne tomorrow in her ...  
GFC caused by bank bought financial deregulation

New studies show that the US financial sector lobbied long and hard for deregulation, and spent a ...  
The Victorian justice quiz

Ever wonder whether you have what it takes to be a judge or magistrate in the Victorian justice ...  
Big four banks set to increase market dominance

In part two of her series on the future of financial regulation reform in Australia, Sandra Hajda ...  
Justice for the few

Two incidents in the Victorian Court of Appeal yesterday have raised grave concerns about the ...  
Alan Greenspan and his ship of fools

Recently released transcripts show the US Federal Reserve was completely ignorant that the world ...  
Occupy the neighbourhood

An electronic database called MERS has created defects in the chain of title to over half the ...  
Australian banks and Dodd-Frank

In the first of a two-part series on financial regulation, Sandra Hajda looks at whether Australia ...  
EU economics has screwed the pooch

In making his financial predictions for international markets in 2012, prominent investment ...  
IA EXCLUSIVE: The NAB versus Matt Norman

Prominent Australian actor and international award winning filmmaker Matt Norman tells the story ...  
Australia does have a housing market bubble

It’s one of the mostly hotly debated topics surrounding property: do Australia’s high resid ...  
The financial and moral bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers

The lesson from Lehman Brothers' fiduciary duty failures is that control of credit should not be ...  
The remarkable political stupidity of Wall Street

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The great money delusion

“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

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

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