James Thomson
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 64
- Latest publication
- Sep 25, 2026
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- Top 50K sites
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- Jul 13, 2026
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Bond market mayhem has terrifying echo of a war that changed the world (opens the original)
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When the nine members of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s monetary policy board gather at the central bank’s headquarters in Sydney on Monday, they’ll have plenty to talk about from a remarkable week. There was the depressing forecast at the centre of the Intergenerational Report, which predicts growth over the next 40 years will average 2 per cent a year, well below the 3 per cent the economy produced over the past four decades. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
The magic number helping Solomon Lew beat the retail recession (opens the original)
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Solomon Lew is being just a little cagey. The 81-year-old executive chairman of Premier Investments is a master of retail reinvention, and he’s just tweaked the dials to ensure that his group’s two retail chains, pyjama giant Peter Alexander and children’s stationery mainstay Smiggle, will survive the coming economic slowdown in the best possible shape. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
Want to really fix Australia? Here are five big ideas (opens the original)
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Nothing quite focuses your mind like the threat of losing your house. Just ask Greg Boorer, the co-founder of pioneering CDC Data Centres, who was helping Australian customers get into cloud computing and artificial intelligence when the Firmus boys were getting their first jobs. Building a business such as CDC, which Boorer started in 2007, takes the sort of singular, long-term vision that entrepreneurs invariably need to succeed – and handle the pressure of putting your house on the line to fu
House price crash could keep Myer in a sea of red ink (opens the original)
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Christmas starts next week. No, you read that right. Myer executive chairwoman Olivia Wirth will launch the department store’s annual push into the silly season in the last week of this month, knowing that the retailer simply must nail its execution over the Black Friday and Christmas sales periods – or risk being dragged even further into the mire that has enveloped the sector. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
He nailed Trump’s big plan. Now he fears Australia’s China-US squeeze (opens the original)
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Michele Bullock knew her crisis would arrive, eventually. As the Reserve Bank of Australia governor told a Committee for Economic Development of Australia event in Sydney on Tuesday, her predecessors all had their big moments when “something went pear-shaped” – the bursting of the dotcom bubble for Ian Macfarlane, the global financial crisis for Glenn Stevens and the pandemic for Philip Lowe. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
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