Here's a tip that could make banks phenomenally successful: radical honesty
Radical honesty works, but it is difficult.
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Louise Metcalf, Macquarie University
Appearing before the banking royal commission, the newly appointed head of the Commonwealth Bank, Matt...
Banking Royal Commission's damning report: 'Things are so bad that new laws might not help'
Peter Martin, The Conversation
Royal Commissioner Kenneth Hayne has identified “greed” as the key reason banks and other financial institutions repeatedly...
A casual glance at the news in recent months may have left you thinking the average Australian earns almost $85,000 a year.
If that sounded insanely high to you, then your instincts were bang on....
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...
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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...
Eight charts on our growing tax problem: what abandoning tax reform means for taxpayers
Rebecca Cassells, Curtin University and Alan Duncan, Curtin University
As we move closer to Treasurer Scott Morrison’s third budget, what we do...
In April 2014, the New South Wales Independent Commission into Corruption (ICAC) claimed its biggest political scalp in two decades. Liberal state premier Barry O’Farrell resigned after what he has described as a “massive...
The financial sector is professional gambling in action
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Chris Brady, University of Salford
The American journalist and poet Ambrose Bierce wrote in his 1906 satire The Devil’s Dictionary that “the gambling known as business looks with...