The booming Aussie dollar is encouraging Australians to travel more overseas, yesterday’s Super Bowl was the most watched game in history and the most watched TV show ever, Clive Palmer is back to his old tricks and more business briefs.
Articles by Glenn Dyer 
Business As Usual: The dollar is travelling well
Rebates to TV networks just an ugly bribe
The three commercial TV networks, Seven, Nine and Ten, went weak at the knees in congratulating the Government for its decision on rebate for licence fees. Can anyone say “election year”?
Business As Usual: What’s Mandarin for boom?
China’s passenger car sales rose 84% last month, why Australia’s rising unemployment is chicken feed in global terms, The Australian carries on like a kookaburra, EMI is skint and more.
Feds tell banks ‘there are no guarantees’
The federal government is finally withdrawing its guarantees to banks and the state governments that allowed both groups to have a good recession. The measures kept our banks alive, but they gave the Big Four too much power.
RBA stays strong as the world gets jittery
Wild market gyrations again prove that the headless herd is off, as monetary authorities start to take away the punchbowl of low-cost money.
Business As Usual: Brussels, we have a problem
The eurozone is on the nose as investors, especially hedge funds, are in a frenzy over what might become the next sovereign debt disaster. Plus, a nice graph about Australia’s economy and other business briefs.
Business As Usual: Property still booming … Pay TV in play … Murdoch’s Rosebud moment
Is Austar’s biggest investor about to pull the plug? Plus a stirring performance from Rupert Murdoch, car sales up, a chilly winter for Europe’s retail sector, and other business bits from around the globe.
Business As Usual: Everyone got it wrong, the French connection
Trade figures for December confirm another bout of red ink, why every economist got the rate rise wrong, Kim Jong Il catches on to capitalism, and the France Telecom suicide scandal.
News results in: Team Rupe’s coffers swell
News Corp has released is second-quarter and first-half earnings report, with mixed results: cable and operating profits were up, but its digital strategy still looks a crock .
RBA’s holding pattern stumps pundits, punters: no rates rise
The Reserve Bank has defied the pundits’ predictions, leaving rates unchanged at 3.75% at today’s board meeting, but has warned that if the economy continues to grow, then rates will go up again.
NAB: Oz economy to keep growing
We can expect accelerating economic growth, falling unemployment, rising interest rates and higher inflation over the coming two years, according to the National Australia Bank.
We were warned: interest rates will rise
When interest rates are raised today, we can’t say that we weren’t warned. RBA chief Glenn Stevens told us last year we had a chance of avoiding it and we muffed it.
Australia’s housing bubble: it’s already here
The evidence is in: Australia is right in the middle of an emerging housing bubble. A rate rise of 0.50% can be justified tomorrow from the RBA on house price figures alone, with Melbourne prices soaring nearly 20%.
World’s economies steering different paths
A flood of figures and announcements from governments on Friday tell very different stories about where some of the world’s major economies are a month into 2010.
News Ltd surrenders $500m to make court case go away
News Ltd has given new meaning to the word “paywall”, recently shutting down what looks like to have been an emerging PR and business debacle in an American court.
Nervous bankers produce lending slump
Bank lending perked up in December, but 2009 as a whole saw the lowest growth in 17 years, thanks in part to a sharp slump in lending to business that was driven, ironically, by banks themselves.
Bernanke and Greece bailout: will it be enough?
The jury is still out as to what effect Ben Bernanke’s re-appointment and Europe’s willingness to bailout Greece will have on global markets.
