High speed rail plan still needs to prove economic benefits will outweigh costs
Aug 02, 2016 05:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The CLARA private consortium claims a high speed rail network between Sydney and Melbourne could be paid for at no cost to the government through a technique known as value capture. What is still not clear is whether there...
The electricity market's not doing a great job – here's how to improve it
Aug 02, 2016 05:44 am UTC| Insights & Views
The past three weeks have seen considerable discussion of Australias wholesale electricity market, driven largely by severe price spikes in South Australia. Hugh Saddler, writing last week on The Conversation, and the...
Why Bernie Sanders' supporters should be good losers
Aug 02, 2016 05:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
What does it mean to be a good loser in politics? In 2015, I taught a seminar called, simply, Political Losers. In the course, we read about political loss in labor strikes, in social movement campaigns, in elections...
As the Olympics approach, stains on Rio's architecture, infrastructure
Aug 02, 2016 05:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Sports
It was raining on May 12, the last time I was in Rio. The cidade maravilhosa the Marvelous City was cold and dark, the furthest thing from the vibrant, jovial landscapes youll see on a Google image search. The rain...
As coal mining declines, community mental health problems linger
Aug 02, 2016 05:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The U.S. coal industry is in rapid decline, a shift marked not only by the bankruptcy of many mine operators in coal-rich Appalachia but also by a legacy of potential environmental and social disasters. As mines close,...
Are you ready for the jobs of the future?
Aug 02, 2016 05:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
The flow of reports about the impact of automation, mostly dire, continues. The latest is from StartupAUS, Australias national startup advocacy group. This report follows the now familiar line captured in the phrase...
FxWirePro: ECB and Fed condense FX OTC operations - Trading EUR/USD iron Condors in jerking IVs
Aug 01, 2016 13:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
After the initial plunge after the referendum, EURUSD has traded sideways in a relatively wide interval between 1.095 and 1.115. - FOMC sidelined for now. Data has picked up, and labour market more solid than May-numbers...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects