Everyone will admit that coming out of the Covid cocoon was going to be liberating.  And, indeed, it has been.  We are now free to come and go as we please and enjoy the sweet taste and smell of liberty.  […]

Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter at a price of $44 billion dollars took one of the internet’s largest public forums out of ‘public’ ownership and moved it into private hands.  Since his takeover the debate around the direction Musk is […]

The news that Russia has reached out to China for military and economic support has sent shockwaves across the world.  What is going on?  Is this simply a way in which Vladimir Putin is forcing Xi Jinping to take a […]

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has represented an escalation of hostilities that has led to perhaps the quickest and most aggressive and comprehensive economic reactions in history.  Prior sanctioning usually has been a slow boil or limited to economies that operated […]

The last decade has seen the rise of a belief that shareholder capitalism has failed and that a new era of stakeholder capitalism is needed.  This is more than an academic viewpoint as more and more influential organisations, leading companies, […]

The events in Washington DC on January 6th have resonated far and wide.  Some of those involved on the day find themselves facing Federal charges while others are surprised that there are consequences for their jobs, careers and flight status.  […]

As the end of 2020 approaches, I thought it worthy of a waste of time — or the avoidance of doing more university administrative work — to take stock of the knowledge that the varieties of lockdowns (and tier surfing) […]

When, on November 29th 1990, the then Australian Treasurer Paul Keating faced a financial crisis that would severely damage major sections of the Australian economy he said “[t]his was the recession we had to have”.  Later, when queried about the […]

The Covid-19 Pandemic has led to a massive global lockdown.  In most countries all but ‘essential’ businesses are shuttered or moved totally online and governments have stepped in to take onto their books the huge costs of keeping businesses solvent […]

These are difficult and trying times.  People are ill. People are suffering and dying.  The press and others pile concerns and complaints on government and corporations for their responses, or lack of response.  Yet, what is amazing is how orderly […]