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  • Market Watch Why debt matters

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Jul 2010

    Phil Ruthven details the alarming rise in government debt across the globe but argues that Australians have less to lose sleep over. Why debt matters Unserviceable debt in the world’s finance industry, with total assets in excess of US$300 trillion, gave us the global financial crisis (...

  • Market Watch Measuring our smarts

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Jun 2010

    Phil Ruthven investigates whether Australia is indeed an intelligent nation. Measuring our smarts If Australia was to judge its goal, as former Prime Minister Bob Hawke once said, as the intelligent nation, then one set of statistics suggests we are a long way short of this aspiration. F...

  • Market Watch Australias great national leaders

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Apr 2010

    Phil Ruthven uses statistics to uncover just who Australia’s best leaders have been. Australia’s great national leaders There is any number of lists of “greats” be they sportspeople, inventors, politicians or other cohorts. But statistics are a must if the list is to have credibility. Austr...

  • Market Watch

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Aug 2007

    This year, $146 billion of our taxes will go to welfare and culture and we will top that up further from our own back pockets. Phil Ruthven examines just how charitable Australians are when compared to our US and British counterparts. The economics of compassion As Australians we are a genero...

  • Market Watch

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Jul 2007

    Phil Ruthven makes some surprising discoveries in explaining how productivity growth sparks change. Back to the info age Being more productive is a virtue in business and a condition of survival within one’s industry. Competition these days is generally fierce, both locally and internationall...