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.
Shares in the engineering and mining services company lifted today after NBN Co awarded it $366 million worth of contract extensions for the broadband rollout.
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.
Shares in the engineering and mining services company lifted today after NBN Co awarded it $366 million worth of contract extensions for the broadband rollout.
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.
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.
With the Pope concerned about global warming and a Queensland church installing solar panels in the shape of the cross, there's hope that religious communities will soon be pushing for action on climate change.
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.
A 2 degree limit doesn't align with Australia's coal expansion plans, a new report shows. Yet few politicians understand the simple maths equation, preferring to defer the real decisions until after they are gone.
Global spending on green, eco-friendly cleaning products is expected triple in the next five years, but the market leader in the category is fighting two battles: competition and consumer awareness.
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 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.
Bill McKibben's tour of Australia is getting plenty of publicity, with his call for a divestment of fossil fuel assets making headlines. But that doesn't mean it will be successful.
Barack Obama has listed climate change as a priority and a matter of urgency. But his most recent comments cast into grave doubt the likelihood of strong action from America in the near-term.
