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Alan Kohler is one of Australia’s most experienced commentators and journalists. Alan is the founder of Eureka Report, Australia’s most successful investment newsletter, and Business Spectator, a 24-hour free business news and commentary website. He also hosts Inside Business, a half-hour Sunday programme on the ABC, is the finance presenter on the ABC News - and producer of the nightly graph (or two).
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Economy
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A potential clean slate for coal mining
Private equity investors are looking to coal mines for their next big win. If they can turnaround chronic mismanagement they'll set an example for other industries.
The bears, Bernanke and the great bond bubble
The bond market is understandably jumpy about what Ben Bernanke says tonight but the Fed is unlikely to abandon its control of the 'biggest bond bubble' in history.
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Markets
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MARKETS SPECTATOR: Aurora's alluring window
Aurora Minerals has hired a resource-specialist investment bank to help it acquire mining assets at bargain prices, quickly.
MARKETS SPECTATOR: Tinkler's lesson in timing
Farallon Capital Management is eating up more of Nathan Tinker's Whitehaven stake, giving the former coal king a masterclass in deal-making.
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Politics
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Labor men have sabotaged Labor's first woman
Kevin Rudd's camp has employed crude methods to promote the worthy cause of a post-union party – inadvertently adding an ironic twist to Labor's misogyny concerns.
Labor will live on despite the disasters
Labor is due for a comeuppance at the election but Julia Gillard's political failings are just one of the party's crimes to come out of this wayward parliament.
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Technology
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Test driving Vodafone's 4G network
Vodafone's 4G network is a step in the right direction for Australia's number three telco and could yet allow it to accomplish the impossible... a comeback.
BYOD 2.0: A more secure workplace
The next evolution of BYOD shifts focus from device management to application management and ensures that the enterprise footprint on a personal device is limited to enterprise data and applications and nothing more.
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Climate
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Jones' anti-wind rally flop
While the lack of attendees at the anti-wind protest in Canberra left MC Alan Jones a bit underwhelmed, a hastily organised pro-wind rally nearby had more than six times the number of attendees.
Taking the good with the bad
As Russia and its allies block climate talks there's hope that America might finally do something. Elsewhere, Warren Buffett continues to back renewables, it's the end of a solar era in Italy, Japan shows signs of slowing down and the EU carbon price lifts again.
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Video
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Australia's education opportunity in China
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CEOs outline changing views on corporate spending and profits, their economic expectations and political dissatisfaction, including advice for Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott.
TECHNOLOGY SPECTATOR: The audacious app trying to take over TV
UK-based Zeebox wants to be the intermediary for all social media-television interactions. It will not only have to lure viewers, but the networks themselves.
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