Tim Treadgold

Tipping the gold price, and the future price of gold stocks, is a mug's game, unless a clear value gap can be demonstrated - which is what appears to have been done in a rather interesting piece of recent research.

It’s best to steer clear of businesses that don’t have profit as their primary motive for existing.

Most Australians have never heard of Dutch Disease, but they will soon because it is the financial phenomena playing a key role in killing resource sector construction jobs.

The market’s response to the planned carbon tax has been instructive.

Buy when others are fearful. That piece of advice made Warren Buffett one of the world's richest people, and it could make a fortune for anyone prepared to plunge into massively discounted Australian uranium stocks.

Asset correlation has already produced some unintended consequences – and there will be more.

"Oh please, hit me again!" That's what management at the ANZ Bank ought to be saying after a conservation movement attack yesterday backfired to the tune of a $908 million profit for the bank's owners.

A gas project at Dongara could have a major effect on WA’s energy sector.

If Pankaj and Radhika Oswal have set out to deliberately infuriate most Australians then they are doing a damned fine job, though it seems more likely that what we're watching is a carefully planned public relations campaign.

WA property prices won’t be in the doldrums for too long.

As the Middle East collapses into its latest bout of instability there are lessons to be learned by investors and managers. Investors should be buying gold and energy stocks, managers should be reviewing business succession plans.

Australia’s financial ‘centres’ might need to take a tip or two from Perth about how to make it as a branch office.

Complaining about the $35.9 billion National Broadband Network has become a pointless exercise. The real question, now that it is being built, is how will we pay for it, and the nasty answer is a compulsory levy.

The figures might look good for Gina Rinehart now, but there’s plenty of upside.

Hang on to your hat and watch your savings because if last night's sharp rise in the price of gold is an accurate guide, a long-predicted wall of inflation is about to break over the world.

Despite the strong profits miners are expected to announce this month, rising costs and tax imposts are major concerns.

Officially, if you use the New York Stock Exchange as your measuring stick, the global financial crisis ended last night.

An insider-trading scandal in the US could have echoes here.

Tragic as the Queensland floods have been, the real lesson we are about to learn with the proposed flood tax is that government, and its inability to curb spending, not the weather, is the greatest threat to the future.

Africa is looming larger on the radar for Australian miners as a combination of factors entices investment there.

The price of antimony has doubled, an event which might cause some people to yawn, if not for the fact that it is a perfect pointer to a new way to make money.

‘Green’, not greed, may be good, but investors will need to be patient if they want a decent return.

Tired of fertiliser jokes? Then relief is in sight because soon we will see through the ammonia cloud hanging around Burrup Fertilisers and get to the critical issue - where's the money.

If anyone didn't already know that the internet is a powerful tool for retailing they do now thanks to Australia's best ever example of how to shoot yourself in the foot.

What did Ken Henry see? That's a question Australia's top civil servant should answer before slipping into comfortable retirement, leaving a nasty tax mess behind.

Politics and business are closely linked, but sometimes the connection can get too close for comfort.

It's 5am on Robin Widdup's stock market clock, time for bears to wake up and get ready for the 6am boom!

The government’s ‘fifth pillar’ policy may be sowing the seeds of disaster.

Writing history, and re-writing history, that's the game plan of Gina Rinehart as she muscles her way onto the national media and political stage using her iron ore fortune.

The GFC has changed the game, and it’s time some of our wealthiest individuals wised up.

When is a 9 per cent iron ore price rise bad news? When it is the Christmas surprise miners will receive later today, revitalising the case for a resource super-profits tax.

Kerry Stokes’ Westrac-Seven empire is a unique business model, but what will happen to it when he moves on?