Tim Treadgold

Did you enjoy the boom?

Australia’s skills shortage is, for most people, a nuisance rather than a serious problem.

Business, if opinion polls are a guide, reckons a Rudd win at the November 24 election will be bad for the economy.Rubbish.

There’s a new kid on the business block, and he’s doing very well thanks to a secret management technique called ‘do nothing’.

As we prepare to enter year six of the greatest resources boom Australia has experienced there’s a hunt under way for the next mining and oil investment theme to maintain the mome

A friend bought a pair of shoes last week.

The price of wheat is at an all-time high, the share price of AWB Ltd (once known as the Australian Wheat Board) is at an all-time low. Why is this so?

Inverse yields in the money market are a telltale sign of a future recession and are high on the watch list of US economists.

The world’s sub-prime credit squeeze came from nowhere, a fact that will please one seasoned observer of the way economies work, Don Stammer.

Going soft is not usually an admirable trait in anyone, and certainly not when it comes to the hardheaded world of investing.

The aftermath of a stock market correction is always a marvelous time for pondering some of the deeper investment questions, such as whether a business is better off following the

‘Conspicuous by his absence’ is an old expression normally reserved for someone who fails to turn up at a meeting.

Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi are a long way from Perth, but they are the names of African countries that should be burning deeply into the conscience of Western Australia’

Knowing a lot about the companies in which you invest is a good thing.

Selling assets has been a foreign concept during the boom. To do so was to risk missing the next upward leg in what has been a remarkable five years.

Wrong place, wrong time.

Rick Allert and Dick Carter ought to swap notes, because if they did, Mr Allert might learn something about organising a competitive takeover bid, and Mr Carter might learn someth

Spin just ain’t what it used to be. Perhaps it’s the boom. Perhaps it’s incompetence. Perhaps it’s the internet.

Software is the stuff that makes computers run smoothly. How ironic, then, that ‘soft options’ cause business, and wider society, to run roughly.

Anyone watching the Australian stock market for the past few weeks could not avoid the feeling that it’s been bouncing across a ceiling, unable to get much higher, and looking ext

Expect to read a lot more in the coming weeks about the search for value in an economy performing at its peak.

PT Barnum was right. There really is a sucker born every minute.

No ships. No workers. No class.

“Kevin, it’s Rod here, do you need any advice on your industrial relations policy.”“Yes, please, Sir Rod. All advice welcome.”

Confidence is the fuel of stock market booms. Run dry and the consequences are dire, as we have seen when earlier booms stalled.

Secession bobs up as a topic every time Western Australia goes into boom mode, and now is no different – though there is an emerging (and amusing) variation on the secession theme

If business in Western Australia thought it was impossible for government services to get worse than they already are, then just wait until the lethargy triggered by the Corruptio

Bubbles never last long, as every child knows. No sooner have you blown one than it pops.

Unemployment at 2.7 per cent of the workforce is reason to celebrate; for most of us.

Reinventing yourself, repeatedly, is not an easy trick.

It has been a long time since anyone thought seriously about investing in WA’s Wheatbelt region for the potential of a substantial future capital gain.

No boom lasts forever, but over the past week Briefcase has seen evidence that this boom really is something completely different and might, just might, live up to the expectation