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Should you fix rates? The answer is obvious. What’s going on with super?
As the dust settles from Tuesday’s federal budget, Alan Kohler and James Kirby reconvene in their traditional Money Cafe time slot to trawl through the budget’s entrails while looking into super refo…
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago
Budget 2020: searching for surprises in a blizzard of measures
James and Alan jump in to a spare room at the 2020 Federal Budget lockup to discuss a massive slate of fiscal measures largely already announced. It's a podcast of big numbers: debt, deficit, populat…
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago
Budget predictions. Can you beat the house when fixing rates? The cities left behind in a housing recovery.
James returns to the Money Cafe just as an enormous Federal Budget looms on the doorstep. This week, he and Alan discuss what next week's budget could contain, the increasingly bifurcated Australian …
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago
How to prepare for a Presidential punch-on. Setting the bar on fund manager experience. Could COVID crush small industry funds?
With James Kirby still on a locked down holiday, Alan is joined in the Money Cafe by Chris Weston, head of research at Pepperstone. Together the two of them look at the RBA's messaging on rates, the …
Published on 5 years, 3 months ago
‘Buy the rumour, sell the fact’. The work from home revolution. A Minsky moment.
Alan Kohler puts the markets under the microscope in this week’s episode of The Money Cafe as he is joined by Author and Publisher of The Pain Report, Jonathan Pain. The pair discuss what the Fed’s b…
Published on 5 years, 3 months ago
Rio's road to perdition. Insuring the vaccines. Tech sell off: If not this time, next time
This week on The Money Cafe, James and Alan chat about the widening gap between markets and the economy, vaccine insurance, the increased pressure on Rio Tinto's leaders after the Juukan Gorge fiasco…
Published on 5 years, 3 months ago
Recession… or something else entirely? Why the Future Fund is cashing up. Can we believe these house price numbers?
Alan Kohler and James Kirby are back in the virtual café to flesh out yesterday’s GDP figures and why the recession label doesn’t capture the current economic situation. The duo also look at IOOF’s a…
Published on 5 years, 3 months ago
The secret of BNPL success. What happens if Biden wins? How much for financial advice?
Alan's back in the virtual cafe this week, and has a lot to catch up on as between market moves and corporate misbehaviour. He and James discuss the epic battle between commercial landlords and retai…
Published on 5 years, 3 months ago
With special guest – Top financial adviser Sally Huynh. Early super withdrawal… is it taxed? A house in the city, a place in the country...can it be done?
Top financial adviser Sally Huynh joins James Kirby in this week’s episode of The Money Café for a discussion on the key issues and investment trends emerging from COVID including gold’s spectacular…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Mining a rebound. Government guaranteed gold? Revealing the 'jobkeeper stocks'.
Resources expert Tim Treadgold joins James Kirby in the cafe this week for a detailed discussion about gold, iron ore, lithium, and how government stimulus could be a major boon for mining generally.…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago