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Alan Kohler
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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SCOREBOARD: House music
Housing starts in the US continued to show solid, if slowing gains, while commodities take their ease as equities rise.
MARKETS SPECTATOR: Ready for rotation
Australian retirees are ripe for a switch from stocks to bonds, says Challenger.
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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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The dark side of e-books
The rise of e-books potentially spells doom for physical books but are we ready to pay the price for that transition?
Google’s loony moonshots
Google's pilot program to offer internet access through a network of balloons isn't as crazy as it sounds. In fact it's another example of how combining out-of-the-box thinking with a big budget can lead to interesting innovation.
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Climate
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Watch out below: Antarctic melting from underneath
Melting from underneath – due to warming ocean waters – is the biggest factor in Antarctic's ice-shelf shrinkage.
Wind power faces a formidable opponent
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.
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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.
