The threat of climate change and the sale of Qantas have sat cheek-by-jowl on the business pages in recent weeks – but no one has spotted the link between the two. Former head of the AGO Experts Group on Emissions Trading Ian Dunlop explains the implications of climate change & peak oil for a debt-laden Qantas.
Articles tagged: debt
Debt Freedom Day Report 2007
February 25th was Debt Freedom Day for 2007: the day Australia had earned enough income to fund the annual interest on its loans. The good news is that the day has finally arrived. The bad news is that it has been so long in coming. Find out more in the Debt Freedom Day Report 2007 by Steve Keen
The Lily, the Pond, and the Recession We Can’t Avoid
When Australia wakes up from its debt binge the hangover won’t be pretty, predicts Steve Keen.
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How to run a country – into debt
Our debt-shy federal government is keeping the national budget in the black, private utilities in the pink, and the rest of us in the red, writes Ian McAuley
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Hell to pay: cities in the age of default and revolt
Brendan Gleeson What is interesting…is the looming coincidence of three moments of reconciliation – economic, human and natural – when growth will be halted, and order disrupted, by the claims of debt. The indications are that all three ‘accounting’ cycles in the developed world are on a path for convergence, some time in the next decade.
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