For the last 6 years, Greece has been a country burdened with bad debt and the threat of default on loans that will take more than a few generations to pay back. During that time, the economy has failed to improve, and again Greece is potentially on the verge of defaulting on its loan obligations, […]
Who really wants to live in a world that is homogenised and beige?: Greetings from Barcelona! I haven’t been here since my parents brought me. Almost 30 years ago and so much has changed. But much remains true to its rich heritage, part of which is also responsible for Spain’s economic woes. In some instances
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Australian Economy- The Australian Investment Education: 2014 – Wow – what a year we have had here in the lucky country! A fairy tale grand final victory, for South Sydney, worthy of a Russell Crowe Hollywood blockbuster; the ongoing political soap opera within the Palmer Not-So-United Party and the crowning glory. Hosting the G20 summit
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Over the past few weeks, the spotlight has shifted to the area of job security across many sectors, ranging from the car industry, manufacturing and of course, Qantas. Work hard at school, get a good job is the advise all our parents probably gave us and that is of course a sound strategy, albeit based
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Over the past few months, one of the most sensitive issues facing the Australian workforce has been Job Security. Getting a regular income is something that we all perhaps can take for granted and the prospect of that income ceasing, due to any factor is very unsettling. Worse still, this is an increasingly common scenario
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Unemployment is one of the key indicators to how a country is performing economically. When Unemployment is low, it means more people are employed and that means more consumer spending. Higher consumer confidence, and company performance increases. While this economic indicator has always been exceptionally important. Today the US Unemployment data is watched like a
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Continuing our Outrageous market predictions with the US Economic Outlook 2014 President Harry Truman once stated “Give me a one handed economist … All my Economists say ‘on the one hand, on the other’”. Nearly 5 years after the GFC (Global Financial Crisis), the US economy has failed to improve to a level that reflects
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