It is not an easy time to be an economic forecaster with the outcome of the financial and political turmoil in Europe impossible to predict.
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Media briefs: White House plane detained, Phuket, let’s pun and more
China detains White House media plane: A charter airplane carrying the White House press corps was detained for nearly three hours Friday at Beijing’s international airport not long after President Bush arrived to attend the Olympic Games. The flight crew of the Northwest Airlines 747 had been expecting to park at a VIP terminal, but […]
Tips and rumours
Fun and games in Brisbane’s City Hall as the ramifications of the new Liberal National (or is that the National Liberal) Party are fully comprehended. Despite his pedigree (or perhaps because of the stink that is Liberal at the Federal level) Lord Mayor “Can Do” Campbell Newman, the Last Standing Liberal of Any Consequence, has […]
Consumer sentiment shows a pulse, sort of
The Westpac/Melbourne Institute Consumer Sentiment survey’s index rose 2.7% from April, writes Glenn Dyer.
