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.
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.
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.
Heavy rain has once again impacted the Yallourn coal mine, the first CEFC investment may have been identified, Waterloo gets the expansion go-ahead, a new solar farm is planned for Queensland and Siemens makes a final move out of solar.
The proposed head of Tony Abbott's Business Advisory Council, Maurice Newman, has labelled wind farms "a crime against the people" and called for the RET to be scrapped altogether. It's the latest insight into a divided Coalition.
The national peak body for medical research will not continue to examine the research ethics of well-known anti-wind farm protester Sarah Laurie, as her group and its staff receive no Commonwealth funding.
A new study has found that "vibroacoustic disease" which is linked to wind farms is not recognised in scientific literature outside a single Portugese research group. What's more they used a sample size of one in linking this apparent disease to wind turbines.
Crunch time nears for the proposed King Island wind farm as another Australian solar thermal project sees funding offered and then taken away. Elsewhere, Dyesol, Pac Hydro and Carnegie Wave make progress on solar, wind and wave projects, respectively.
It could be a tough year for wind as countries waver over support mechanisms and some firms battle stretched balance sheets. Meanwhile, there's some better news with Europe's ETS.
