There is an increasing amount of focus on the Australian residential property market. Last week, outgoing BHP Chairman Don Argus said: ‘I think the Australian Banking Sector has gone too far. You can look at some of them now as giant building societies.’ He was referring to the large exposure that the big four Australian banks have to residential property.
April 7th, 2010 | Greg Canavan | 42 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Australian banking sector"
Historians May Write: In Order to Save Greece, it Was Necessary to Destroy the Euro
The bigger story is that Greece hasn’t been abandoned by the rest of Europe…yet. Europe could probably leave Greece behind and preserve the integrity (such as it is) of the euro as a sound currency. But 50 years of harping on about social justice and economic harmony and humane capitalism is going to make it hard for policymakers to leave Greece to its own devices.
February 17th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 19 comments | Continued
