Gary Morgan
News and interviews on Gary Morgan including trends, features, blogs and community conversations from an Australian business perspective.
Regulatory bluesFriday, 08 April 2011
As Wayne Swan and Bill Shorten take out their carving knives and tax scales and the RBA considers a salutary anti-inflationary jolt to business expectations, it would be a great time to consider the impact on smart companies. ...
Watch the Big Mac index and China
Friday, 19 March 2010
Given the uncertainties about rising oil prices, the impact of cut backs in new housing subsidies, the wind down of Gillard’s school halls and Rudd’s roofing follies, and the removal of small business temporary investment credits, it is not surprising that ...
Better buy now
Friday, 05 March 2010
There is a general agreement that house prices are going up dramatically, unemployment levels are coming down and casual workers are being offered permanent part-time positions as the new form of labour market flexibility. ...
Creating new customers
Friday, 26 February 2010
The next six months are going to be an increasingly difficult prospect for traditional small and medium enterprises that have survived the GFC. While the mass media focuses upon the equities exchange, Parliament moves into the deficit containment sphere, smart ...
It’s not over folks
Friday, 19 February 2010
The Australian sharemarket — which has stayed at about the same level for much of February - shows that most investors are only too aware of the Abbott debt bomb campaign and the Tanner tendency to tell caucus that its plans for more cash splash are cactus. ...
Reading the future
Monday, 15 February 2010
Australia's recovery and job creation, especially in Victoria, has been ahead of the rest of the world, generating concerns that the economy will grow too fast if we follow other nation's retention of stimulus packages. ...
Good one, Glenn
Friday, 05 February 2010
As the nation heads for the silly season of an election year, it's only appropriate to recognise the wisdom of Tony Abbott and the folly of Barnaby Joyce in their respective relationships with our top public servants. ...
Business building
Friday, 22 January 2010
Watch out for the first weeks in February for signs that Glenn Stevens and Ken Henry will enter election year with a curb on consumer over-confidence and pressures to jump all over imports. ...
Secure home base
Friday, 15 January 2010
The next few months are going to be critical for all smart companies that have weathered the global financial crisis, reviewed their 2010 business plans and started to convert part-time to full time staff. ...
Rate rise risks
Friday, 08 January 2010
If smart companies have not revised their business and marketing plans for 2010, now is definitely the time to visit both accountants and the lending manager of the local bank branch. Overseas currency speculators are convinced that the dollar is heading towards ...
A warning for 2010
Friday, 18 December 2009
The decision of the US Senate to reappoint Ben Bernanke with the support of even a couple of Republicans represents a good sign for export oriented smart companies that have maintained their inventory and their quality sales teams. ...
Knock-on effects
Friday, 04 December 2009
Smart companies that are cutting back on their Christmas parties, substituting an offer of continued employment for the annual bonus and finalising their New Year resolutions need to take a close look at their risk management projections for 2010. ...
Is it too late?
Friday, 13 November 2009
As the racing season comes to a Shocking conclusion, the asylum seekers find tough new barrier placings from Malcolm Turnbull, the RBA puts the blinkers on the Lazarus economy and Ken Henry prepares us for a rush to the stewards of taxation reform - is it too ...
Missed management
Friday, 06 November 2009
As the US celebrates the Fed's reassurance that the worst is over, the Republicans win a couple of seats that confirm that the Congress will now be in gridlock and the stock market follows the square root sign by bouncing around the 10,000 mark, Australian ...
Here to help?
Friday, 30 October 2009
We all know the line about the tax representative who visits your business and assures you that "We're here to help you". As the Independent Contractors of Australia say, albeit that they are partially funded by the Australian Government: ...
The other end of town
Friday, 23 October 2009
As the nation heads for the races, the productivity commission pulls up the pokie straps and the central banks worry about the inflation dragon caused by the Chinese stimulus package, isn't it time to ask what needs to be done to stimulate job creation in small ...
Down to the roots
Friday, 16 October 2009
As Glenn Stevens moves to repeat the pattern of interest rate rises that gave Swan his mantra about serial increases in Howard's era, we are now able to confirm that it is neither a V shaped recovery or a W shaped boom and bust. ...
Watch your back
Friday, 09 October 2009
There are significant pressures coming onto the Australian economy from the RBA efforts to prop up the flow of foreign funds into our economy, in the face of the secret deals being done to decouple the energy train from the currency markets. ...
Act now before times get bad again
Friday, 25 September 2009
Australians are increasingly confident that we're now past the worst effects of the global slowdown over the past 18 months, with both the David Jones and the Aldi ends of the retail market showing good signs of steady growth over the year. ...
Against the tide
Friday, 11 September 2009
Contrary to better judgement, all the opposing evidence and an overdose of reading the tea leaves in the dregs of our economic cup that says we are in a W rather than a V economy (see 24 July 2009 Futurist blog), it is vital that smart companies get in early ...
