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Why corporate America loves Donald Trump

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American executives are betting that the president is good for business. Not in the long run MOST American elites believe that the Trump presidency is hurting their country. Foreign-policy mandarins are terrified that security alliances are being wrecked. Fiscal experts warn that borrowing is spiralling out of control. Scientists deplore...
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What is GDPR, and why should I care?

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Katharine Schwab is an associate editor at Co.Design based in New York who covers technology, design, and culture. Your complete guide to the new law, courtesy of designers, agencies, and privacy experts. Many designers don’t work with data directly. So why should they care about the General Data Protection Regulation, Europe’s...
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What happens to small towns whose water becomes big business for bottled brands?

BUSINESS
What happens to small towns whose water becomes big business for bottled brands? The more the market is willing to pay, the harder it is to regulate water use. Shutterstock.com Emma Kathryn White, University of Melbourne and Rebecca Louise Nelson, University of Melbourne Groundwater being pumped from a highland aquifer, only to be...
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Looking for energy independence? Make your solar smarter

BUSINESS
Building automation generally has been the automatic centralised control of a building’s heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and lighting systems. While this offers improved convenience and comfort, reduced O&M costs, and decreased energy consumption, it is a limited approach. As solar energy is reaching greater grid penetration and the cost of...
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Who are the wealthy retirees targeted in Labor’s plans?

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Roger Wilkins, University of Melbourne In Labor’s budget reply speech, Bill Shorten reaffirmed the plan to remove refundability of dividend imputation credits. His pitch was to Australian voters on lower and middle incomes, in which he pledged to look after the country’s ageing population: We know that giving older Australians the...
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Risks are greater than I can recall in my working life

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Despite the encouraging “maths” in this budget, the return to surplus has still yet to be delivered writes John Hewson. Budgets are about choices. With an unexpected surge in revenue, the government’s main options were to apply it to deficit repair, to spend it, or to give it back in...
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Banking encourages cheating

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Any meaningful shift in the finance sector’s corporate culture will have to come from within, writes David Kinley. Do banking and finance attract cheats or create them? This was the question a team of behavioural economists from Switzerland set out to answer in a ground-breaking experiment in 2014. They took 128 bankers...
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Government timing tricks hide the real budget story

BUSINESS
Timing tricks help politicians avoid dealing with the substance of their policies. That isn’t going to change any time soon. Cindy Zhi, CC BY-ND Richard Holden, UNSW This year’s budget may not have had a whole lot of surprises, but it was chock full of crafty timing tricks. The government’s new personal...
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View from The Hill: A tax cut that will ‘pay your rego’

POLITICS
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra The Turnbull government has produced a budget that it hopes it can sell as appealing for voters while appearing fiscally responsible. Its income tax cuts target lower and middle earners in the early stages, delivering a benefit of up to $530 a year for them. If...
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Infographic: Budget 2018 at a glance

POLITICS
Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Jenni Henderson, The Conversation and Wes Mountain, The Conversation Jenni Henderson, Section Editor: Business + Economy, The Conversation and Wes Mountain, Deputy Multimedia Editor, The Conversation This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Unlike many online news portals, your Pigsfly Newspaper doesn’t hold...
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