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	<title>Shareswatch Australia &#187; Opinion</title>
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		<title>Where is the Australian Economy heading in 2012?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/?p=4376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Australian economy is either poised for a tough year or will be protected by the strong demand for commodities from China. There is a lot of mixed signals out there so in which direction is the economy likely to be heading this year?]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea&#8217;s Khrushchev.</title>
		<link>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/north-koreas-khrushchev/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=north-koreas-khrushchev</link>
		<comments>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/north-koreas-khrushchev/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Clark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/?p=4297</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scenes of Pyongyang citizens wailing the death of "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il remind us how easily dictatorships can manipulate public opinion. But are the rest of us so immune to similar manipulation? ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The stampede towards global economic pessimism</title>
		<link>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/stockmarket/the-stampede-towards-global-economic-pessimism/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-stampede-towards-global-economic-pessimism</link>
		<comments>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/stockmarket/the-stampede-towards-global-economic-pessimism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Atkinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/?p=3874</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A sure sign that an economic trend has been established is when the OECD finally jumps on the trend bandwagon and recently the OCED has joined the group of recently converted economic pessimists.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the stupid Australian economy, stupid.</title>
		<link>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/economy/its-the-stupid-australian-economy-stupid/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=its-the-stupid-australian-economy-stupid</link>
		<comments>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/economy/its-the-stupid-australian-economy-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Atkinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/?p=3755</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few months media commentary regarding the Australian economy has turned decidedly gloomy. House prices are showing signs of weakness, major job losses have been announced an even the wonders of the mining boom are being questioned.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>A stock market rout, investor fear &amp; the global economy</title>
		<link>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/stockmarket/a-stock-market-rout-investor-fear-the-global-economy/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-stock-market-rout-investor-fear-the-global-economy</link>
		<comments>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/stockmarket/a-stock-market-rout-investor-fear-the-global-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 03:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/?p=3681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the Australian stock market slumps today along with the global markets it's important not to get carried away by the scary headlines in the media and try to focus on facts and fundamentals.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>69</slash:comments>
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		<title>Recession watch and the Reserve Bank of Australia awakens</title>
		<link>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/economy/recession-watch-and-the-reserve-bank-of-australia-awakens/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=recession-watch-and-the-reserve-bank-of-australia-awakens</link>
		<comments>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/economy/recession-watch-and-the-reserve-bank-of-australia-awakens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 04:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/?p=3602</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally it appears that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board has woken up to the fact that the economy has been sliding backwards since late 2010. Once again the RBA had made a tactical blunder and raised rates too high just as they did as the global financial crisis was unfolding back in 2007.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>The deadly climate change and carbon tax swindle</title>
		<link>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/the-deadly-climate-change-and-carbon-tax-swindle/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-deadly-climate-change-and-carbon-tax-swindle</link>
		<comments>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/the-deadly-climate-change-and-carbon-tax-swindle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Atkinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/?p=3576</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The continued unjustifiable focus on climate change is diverting attention away the real threats that confront future generations. These threats that are killing millions of people annually now and will kill even more in the decades ahead.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>116</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Australian economy, the Twilight Zone and known unknowns</title>
		<link>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/economy/the-australian-economy-the-twilight-zone-and-known-unknowns/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-australian-economy-the-twilight-zone-and-known-unknowns</link>
		<comments>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/economy/the-australian-economy-the-twilight-zone-and-known-unknowns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/?p=3562</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Australian economy continues to struggle and the outlook for the rest of the year remains unclear. Perhaps the economy will not be dragged down by any slowdown in the Chinese economy but the reality is at this stage, we simply don't know what will happen.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Swan&#8217;s lazy 2011 budget and Australian economic madness</title>
		<link>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/economy/swans-lazy-2011-budget-and-australian-economic-madness/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=swans-lazy-2011-budget-and-australian-economic-madness</link>
		<comments>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/economy/swans-lazy-2011-budget-and-australian-economic-madness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 02:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/?p=3420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On budget night Wayne Swan could have saved us all a lot of time by simply standing up and saying that his plan for the Australian economy was to simply sit back and hope the mining boom continued. The 2011 Australian Federal Budget lacks visions and will not help the economy withstand a future economic downturn.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gillard, Rudd, Brown, Wilkie, the nightmare continues</title>
		<link>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/gillard-rudd-brown-wilkie-the-nightmare-continues/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=gillard-rudd-brown-wilkie-the-nightmare-continues</link>
		<comments>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/gillard-rudd-brown-wilkie-the-nightmare-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 03:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/?p=3377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Gillard Government is adrift at a time when reforms are needed to make the Australian economy more robust. After four years of Rudd and Gillard government debt is up and business confidence is down.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Thoughts from Japan &#8211; a terrifying earthquake &amp; tragedy</title>
		<link>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/thoughts-from-japan-a-terrifying-earthquake-tragedy/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=thoughts-from-japan-a-terrifying-earthquake-tragedy</link>
		<comments>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/thoughts-from-japan-a-terrifying-earthquake-tragedy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 03:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/?p=3260</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The tragic earthquake in Japan is a disaster affecting the entire nation of Japan. The scale of the tragedy is immense and one feels living in Japan will never been the same again.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Carbon, a new tax and Gillard&#8217;s Lifeform Levy</title>
		<link>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/carbon-a-new-tax-and-gillards-lifeform-levy/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=carbon-a-new-tax-and-gillards-lifeform-levy</link>
		<comments>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/carbon-a-new-tax-and-gillards-lifeform-levy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 02:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/?p=3205</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The plans to introduce a carbon tax by the Gillard Government are another example of poor policy planning. The carbon tax will drive up inflation and fail to result in any significant greenhouse gas emission reductions.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>The floods, the loony Greens and a new tax</title>
		<link>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/the-floods-the-loony-greens-and-a-new-tax/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-floods-the-loony-greens-and-a-new-tax</link>
		<comments>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/the-floods-the-loony-greens-and-a-new-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/?p=3040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Gillard Government is shamelessly trying to use the tragic flooding in Australia as an excuse for it's own economic mismanagement and wasteful spending.]]></description>
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		<title>Debating the Optimistic versus Pessimistic Views of China</title>
		<link>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/debating-the-optimistic-versus-pessimistic-views-of-china/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=debating-the-optimistic-versus-pessimistic-views-of-china</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Clark</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/?p=3033</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The economic progress we are seeing in China today is almost a carbon copy of the dynamism we saw in Japan’s high-growth economy of the sixties and early seventies. But will China makes the same mistakes as Japan?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The North Korea conundrum</title>
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		<comments>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/the-north-korea-conundrum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Korea bombards the South Korean held island of Yeonpyeong in the Yellow Sea, killing and wounding a number of people there. The hawks call for the strongest possible response. The pundits warn of another Korean War.]]></description>
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		<title>43 ways to spend the National Broadband Network&#8217;s $43 billion</title>
		<link>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/43-ways-to-spend-the-national-broadband-networks-43-billion/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=43-ways-to-spend-the-national-broadband-networks-43-billion</link>
		<comments>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/43-ways-to-spend-the-national-broadband-networks-43-billion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps instead of spending $43 billion on the National Broadband Network there are other areas where Australian taxpayers money could be more wisely spent such as flood prevention and aged care?]]></description>
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		<title>The unbalanced economy and household savings</title>
		<link>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/economy/the-unbalanced-economy-and-household-savings/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-unbalanced-economy-and-household-savings</link>
		<comments>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/economy/the-unbalanced-economy-and-household-savings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 03:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/?p=2879</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The unbalanced nature of the Australia economy continues to send the market mixed signals about it's underlying strength or weakness. Unemployment might be low, but the business sector is struggling and household savings are still in long term decline.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>43</slash:comments>
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		<title>The great Australian election hangover.</title>
		<link>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/the-great-australian-election-hangover/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-great-australian-election-hangover</link>
		<comments>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/the-great-australian-election-hangover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/?p=2831</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a few weeks of uncertainty following the federal election in Australia the Australian Labor Party (ALP) has managed to pull together a ragged alliance and hold onto power. But will this alliance be good for the nation?]]></description>
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		<title>A double dip recession, fear and keeping an open mind.</title>
		<link>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/economy/a-double-dip-recession-fear-and-keeping-an-open-mind/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-double-dip-recession-fear-and-keeping-an-open-mind</link>
		<comments>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/economy/a-double-dip-recession-fear-and-keeping-an-open-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/?p=2799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Dow Jones closed this morning below 10,000 and for those financial writers who focus more on grabbing reader's attention rather than on facts that can only mean one thing: the U.S economy is heading for a double dip recession!]]></description>
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		<title>A federal election, selfish voters and the media circus.</title>
		<link>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/a-federal-election-selfish-voters-and-the-media-circus/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-federal-election-selfish-voters-and-the-media-circus</link>
		<comments>http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/a-federal-election-selfish-voters-and-the-media-circus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/?p=2790</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thankfully one of the least productive uses of resources on a national scale, a federal election, will soon be over. So which voters will decide the outcome of the election? The selfish ones of course!]]></description>
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