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).
Quantitative easing is not just a simple extension of conventional monetary policy and its eventual unwind is less dangerous than financial markets think.
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.
Quantitative easing is not just a simple extension of conventional monetary policy and its eventual unwind is less dangerous than financial markets think.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CEOs outline changing views on corporate spending and profits, their economic expectations and political dissatisfaction, including advice for Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott.
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.
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.
Wind power is being subject to an effective scare campaign similar to that executed against the carbon tax. Even though the people involved represent a small minority they are influential.
China's first pilot carbon trading scheme is likely to launch today. While it is far from perfect it seems even communists can appreciate the limitations of direct regulatory actions.
Barack Obama may have a hostile Congress ready to fight back against climate policies he may introduce, but there is a useful tool he can use that bypasses Congress. He just hasn't yet.
The saga around the Whyalla Solar project teaches us that grant-tendering is a thicket of thorns. Markets and price signals deserve greater consideration.
Politicians desire for big impressive announcements and projects collided with public servants urge to avoid mistakes at any cost to set-up Whyalla Solar Oasis for failure.
The IEA bravely continues promoting policies that, if implemented, would prevent catastrophic climate change. But one could be forgiven for saying we need to get ready for a much hotter world.
A new deal to curb emissions could copy features from the Montreal Protocol, which the US and China favoured over its Kyoto counterpart in an agreement on greenhouse gases at the weekend.
The solar trade war has taken a strange twist with European wine getting dragged into the dispute. Elsewhere, there's bad news for a massive tidal energy project and EU carbon advances.
The International Energy Agency has proposed four initiatives to significantly reduce carbon emissions at no net economic cost that could buy time until longer-term more permanent fixes can be put in place.
