Michael West

Michael West established Michael West Media in 2016 to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor with Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and even, once, a stockbroker.

Compliance tightens as broking times turn tough

There's a ruckus going on Bell Potter between a senior dealer Jonathan Barrett and his head of retail stockbroking ...

Westpac pulls out of brothel project

Westpac has walked away from financing the “world's biggest brothel”, the proposed 42-room megaplex on Parramatta ...

At last, a healthy dose of reality

The outcast has returned from the deserts of market disaffection. Telstra is back, and the market has a new ...

Second GFC has become their debt to society

WHERE will the money come from this time? In this global financial crisis Mark II, the sovereign debt crisis, ...

The Fed’s ‘Harvey Norman’ option – 2 years interest free!

Where will the money come from? Who will bail out the governments? Wall Street plunged again last night, ...

Bargains galore but risks are there, too

Yesterday's spectacular bounce in the Australian sharemarket, after the deepest losses on Wall Street in two ...

A bull story

Update Today is the best buying opportunity in the share market in two years. We know that because shares are well ...

Markets have greater worries than a downgrade

THE downgrade to America's credit rating is a historic assault on the superpower's prestige and a symbol of the ...

Americans forever in their debt

THE downgrade to America's credit rating is a historic assault on the superpower's prestige and a symbol of ...

Wall Street Henny Pennys tumble into bondage

The US debt market is, ironically, the haven investors have chosen even though the US economy is as precarious as ...

Plan A: spend way out of crisis

The US bond market was the place to be this week, amid the panic as frightened investors took the long handle to ...

The last plan failed

The last plan, to respond to the global financial crisis in 2008, was the mother of all stimulus programs. It was ...
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