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Iron ore prices — key to Australia’s economic recovery — hit a six-month high last week. But the days of 10% growth in China are over, as the country ramps up its own mining operations. Are the salad days of iron ore prices over?

Claims that the Australian economy is hunky-dory — including by Crikey’s Glenn Dyer and Bernard — need some debunking with reality.

Is China indulging in another round of talks about new spending that it will find almost impossible to back with what’s really needed — cold, hard cash?

The faith in the new round of easing seems rather desperate and a bit misplaced.

Newly developed robots are much more nimble and suitable for manufacturing jobs than previous attempts. But what is the human cost to our increasing robot workforce? John Markoff investigates.

Stand by, the still-slowing Chinese economy’s search for a soft landing is starting to get bumpy.

There were no refills of the punchbowl from the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and then, last night our time, the European Central Bank.

No help for frightened markets from the US Federal Reserve this morning, despite a flood of news overnight and yesterday strongly suggesting the pace of global economic activity continues to slow, especially in Asia.

Keep an eye on China as we watch another week of grain price surges — the dramatic impact of the soaring prices for corn and soybeans in particular.

China’s economy isn’t veering off the tracks and heading for the “hard landing”.

If we ever needed confirmation of just how strong the outlook for the Australian economy is, we had it last night.

Markets worked themselves into a froth overnight after the June survey of US manufacturing showed a surprise fall for the first time in three years.

Fears over the faltering Chinese economy will cast a shadow over global markets this week.

How low could the RBA’s cash rate go? Much lower than most folks, including the financial markets, think, according to Christopher Joye of Property Observer.

The slowdown in the Chinese economy seems to be deepening with the surprisingly sharp slowdown in industrial production, retail sales and investment.

Australia — already a proxy for China’s growth trends — could be more vulnerable to a potential second global banking crisis than we normally imagine, says Robert Gottliebsen of Business Spectator.

The Australian dollar dropped through parity with the US currency today for the first time in nearly five months.

Things are on the up for the voracious Chinese steel industry, but don’t tell all those highly paid investment analysts here and offshore who are gloomy about China.

To avoid recession, Australia will have to have growth of 3% to 4% over the next 18 months — which is possible, but no certainty.

China has reached agreements on swaps with about 20 countries, but Australia is the biggest and most advanced economy to sign up.

The unthinkable has happened, countries have gone broke, but the euro has survived.