Australia has received two recent warnings over its debt levels – one from Standard & Poor’s (S&P) and the other from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). S&P has warned that Australia’s net foreign debt has reached “extreme” levels, among the worst in the world. John Chambers, the chairman of the firm’s sovereign ratings committee, told The Australian (October 10, 2016): “Australia would have…

Two birds with one stone I would like to suggest to News Weekly readers a way to finance an infrastructure fund that at the same time would give ordinary Australian workers some relief from the debt they have incurred to buy a home. Households that are in the process of buying a family home in most cases are faced with 25 to 30…

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