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).
The long-standing correlation in global economic data is being challenged. It reveals profound tensions underneath the world's central bank-inspired stability.
After months of campaigning against 'wasteful' Labor management, Tony Abbott will be aware similar scrutiny will apply to his government, should the Coalition win.
Google's new product announcements typically impress. But this latest announcement about Google Music shows that the company is happy to copy other incumbents and not blaze its own path in the digital music scene.
The newly created role of the social media adviser is one shrouded in mystery. Part PR, part digital media specialist, it's yet to fully understand its place in Australian politics.
The US Supreme Court's decision whether to take up any of the petitions against climate change regulations could shape or shatter the Obama administration's efforts to solidify its climate change agenda.
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.
A large portion of Australia's utility interests will switch from Singaporean to Chinese ownership. But the giant State Grid will be taking a back seat in management.
A Chinese version of Goldman Sachs may be about to burst through the pack. But where the Wall Street giant took 150 years to build, China's 114 brokerage firms are turbocharging their growth.
China shocked many when it reached out to get involved in Middle Eastern politics, but its strategic interests in the region are too big for it to keep a low profile any longer.
The US and China are continuing their sub-optimal trajectory – and the latest tranche of disappointing economic data suggests meaningful growth may be a way off.
With the China Air Pollution Index now one of the most popular iPad apps in Beijing, its clear the smog crisis has got out of control. But is the government ready to act?
China's rebalancing will inevitably lead to a slowdown but what many predict will be merely a slump could prove much worse if feedback loops are ignored.
Silvercrest Asset Management's chief strategist says China has been riding a credit fuelled investment boom for several years, but as investments fail to generate returns resources are increasingly being locked up in rolling over bad debt.
