China delivered some more positive results in the last 24 hours, leading to questions about whether the fears of a pronounced economic slowdown have been overplayed. So, is this good news for Australia? Phil Dobbie asks NAB’s David de Garis why we’re not seeing a positive reaction in the Aussie dollar which is stuck in a very tight trading range. Plus, what’s inside the Fed’s beige book, Germany’s big cut in growth forecasts, the reduced US trade deficit and the significance of today’s Aussie employment numbers and NAB Business Survey.
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Get ready for the applications boom
Will the NBN provide a boom for local application developers? If so, have we got enough local expertise to develop these applications? A visit to many government department websites will show how poor the user experience can be. With the new network will we just get more frustrated quicker?
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The Crisis Ten Years On
Prof Steve Keen suggests another crisis might not be away. This time, we might not see banks collapsing, but the economic impact will be just as spectacular.
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The New NBN. What’s the brief?
As NBNCo hits the reset button, isn’t it time to ask what exactly is the scope of the NBN? If the board is working on finding a new way, what’s the brief?
