There’s a romanticised glamour about entrepreneurship. The reality, as most small business owners will tell you, is that it’s frequently a slog.
Gemma Acton
Call me pessimistic but between geopolitics and local pricing dynamics, I’m braced for petrol prices to reset their record highs before too long.
When VB dropped its alcohol content, its fans were responsible for some of the most impressive shrinkflation sleuthing and shaming Australia has ever seen.
I mean ‘we’ in the widely inclusive royal sense. That sobering pronouncement comes to us from Arthur C. Brooks, a subject matter expert and teacher of a Harvard Business School course entitled Happiness.
New year, new you? Not so fast, according to NAB, whose latest quarterly well-being survey indicates we haven’t felt this down since COVID first broke out four years ago.
Newly anointed governor Michele Bullock was barely four months into the job when she had the unenviable task of delivering the Reserve Bank’s first post-decision press conference last Tuesday.
There’s a lot to think about when you’re heading overseas. The Aussie dollar tends to do better when people are optimistic about the health of the global economy.
Like dozens of financial journalists from around the world, I’m lucky enough to be spending the third week of January admiring the breath taking beauty of the Swiss Alps.
The dawn of a new year has no real competition in its claim to be the most popular time to set resolutions and reassess life goals.
A few days out from Christmas, the Australian Retailers Association is striking a relatively positive tone — upping its forecast for pre-Christmas spending to $67.4 billion — a 1 per cent increase on last year.
It’s worth doing a quick stocktake of what we’ve seen this year that could help us in thinking through our personal finances once the calendar ticks over to January 1.
Free flights? Discounts on groceries? Petrol savings? Cashback? Sure — as we approach Christmas and are now 18 months deep into a rampant inflation crisis, I’m listening. But what’s the catch?
Setting prices used to involve a lot of guesswork but the more data that is available to retailers and service providers, the more they can finesse pricing to squeeze buyers to cough up every last dollar.
A fortnight from now — if all goes to plan which admittedly it never does in these situations — I will be in a maternity ward with a brand new family member in my arms.
While wealth has been increasing, retail spending has trended flat for a year now. That’s despite prices rising, indicating we’re buying less overall, it’s just costing us more.
There’s no doubt, AI will completely change the way most of us work. But it’s far too pessimistic to assume it’ll be uniformly bad.
‘It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.’
Consumers worldwide are feeling the pinch and, separately, organised crime gangs are getting smarter about how to evade the ever-expanding reach of technology and trackers in our supermarkets.
The sad reality is that the most vulnerable people, least able to help themselves in the event of a future catastrophe, are the ones who already can’t afford to buy insurance.
Avoiding the need to navigate a foreign tipping scene is just one of the benefits of holidaying within Australia.
Overnight campers and queues stretching five blocks greeted visitors to Melbourne’s iconic Chapel Street shopping precinct — owed to Virgin Australia’s a physical rewards store.
The luxury boom continues, with its startling resilience not just a local phenomenon.
According to a Government report, the average Australian buys 14.8 kilograms of clothing every year. To put that in perspective, that’s 56 pieces each.
There’s no shortage of budgeting books out there with suggestions on how to stay financially afloat while the pricing screws are being tightened from every direction.
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