Perspective

  • On the cards: marketing gets personal

    Companies are amassing ever more precise information on individual customers.

  • Follow the money north

    As one boom cools another heats up: Why power is shifting to Queensland.

  • Life's switching to off-peak

    Who am I? I arrive at work at sunrise, go to the gym mid-morning and leave work by 4pm

  • Northern exposue brings welcome boon

    The Ch'tis, long the butt of French jokes, are having the last laugh as a movie by one of their own overturns French box office records.

  • My brilliant career: On hold

    She represented the future but ended up collateral damage in the Troy Buswell explosion

  • A world of weird ways to do business

    The Chinese care deeply about trust and family, but less about contract law

  • Cheap as chips no more

    The days of Brisbane residents boasting about their beloved city's low cost of living are long gone.

  • Cracks in the mining miracle

    The change in sentiment has been sudden amid doubts about China's ability to maintain its breakneck growth.

  • Macquarie's big green grab

    The wilderness forests of Kalimantan are no place for an investment banker - that is until now.

  • $US revival more in hope than expectation

    It is not that the US economy is gaining strength but the rest of the world is dropping further, analysts claim.

  • It's not all gloom and doom for China and commodities

    The long bull run in shares and resources may have ended, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the bears will run riot.

  • Value hunt begins with savaged mid-tier miners

    The carnage presents an opportunity for investors who think the sector's sell-off has been overdone.

  • The banks are bruised, but they're not battered

    Australian banks largely avoided the sub-prime loan market that brought the US market to its knees.Australia's largest retail home loan lender, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, is doing it tough.

  • And the Americans thought they had it bad

    Markets are beginning to sense that the US is likely to recover more quickly than other struggling rich-world economies.

  • Solar demonstrates the scale of its power

    Converting sunlight into power may be expensive but it is leaping ahead in the US.

  • Bush hangover a massive headache for McCain

    John McCain has to convince not only voters but also many in his own party that he is different from George Bush.

  • A rude awakening by Russian tanks

    Moscow's display of might in Georgia has exposed divisions in how the West handles a resurgent power.

  • She sinks her teeth into her art

    Live-wire Canadian Aszure Barton has just six weeks to create a work for the Sydney Dance Company, writes Stewart Hawkins.

  • Back on the horse and keeping the dream alive

    She has re-emerged from the devastating losses that ended a happy exile, and it's the pull of the next thing that drives Patti Smith, writes Chris Boyd.

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