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By Leith van Onselen Earlier this week, MB’s own banking insider, Deep T, penned an explosive article lifting the lid on the Australian banks’ giant mortgage capital rort. This followed many years of lobby from Deep T for a more thorough measurement of bank capital and risks, which resulted in APRA this week seeking a

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By Leith van Onselen After Melbourne on Tuesday lost its bogus title of “most liveable city”, Lord Mayor Sally Capp offered a rare dose of honesty on the primary reason why: Calling Melbourne a “victim of its own success,” Mayor Capp said the city’s growth had made it harder to meet the liveability criteria. “You

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From Damien Boey at Credit Suisse: Panic! Our global strategy team have highlighted that our proprietary global risk appetite index is now in oversold, or panic territory. Risky assets have underperformed safe assets over the past six months to the point where they may be starting to look interesting from a contrarian point of view.

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I was there giving my glasses a bit of a clean with that stuff supplied from ‘Specsavers’ … you know … that stuff that smells like those dentist surgeries of old … that stuff you spray on the lenses from a little misting bottle … much like a scent bottle that women spray onto their…

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By Leith van Onselen Harold Mitchell has penned an article today in Fairfax warning that the recent sharp decline in new car sales is like the “canary in a coal mine” for the economy: Car sales are dropping. July sales were down 8 per cent and followed May and June which recorded reduced volumes on

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