Columnist Michael Pascoe

One of the great apparent conundrums of Australia at present is our housing market - it seems we're not building enough to put rooves over the heads of everyone coming here despite high prices, as demonstrated by the housing affordability measure

Today's Consumer Price Index and ANZ's interim result were not good news. Indeed, annual inflation running at 4.25 per cent on the Reserve Bank's preferred measure ( http://au.biz.yahoo.com/080423/19/1pktq.html ) and the ANZ's real

QBE putting Insurance Australia Group on the auction block has understandably grabbed plenty of attention, particularly as there are the better part of half a million IAG shareholders wondering what will happen to their company, but I want to start

As predictable as the sun rising in the east, every market crash and scandal is followed by regulators trying to protect their backsides and politicians promising regulatory reforms so that "this will never happen again". They really mean

The Superannuation Minister, Senator Nick Sherry, kicked off the week with a pile of headlines by stating the obvious about super fund returns this year - they're going to be poor. Actually, he went further than that, promising the worst