On the Money Café this week, Alan Kohler and Stephen Mayne on Blackmores and another Australian icon disappearing, why Tucker Carlson was sacked, raising money to clean up a uranium mine, dud KKR floats and finding the money for a proper monthly CPI. Also: buy the best house you can live in, executives paying taxes, Japanese government bonds, the RBA chief speaking out of turn, owning a home vs renting, a Holden vs a Camry, Manningham’s librarians and more.

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On the Money Café this week, Alan Kohler and Stephen Mayne on the Fox settlement and how much it cost to keep Rupert off the stand, what's a reasonable wage increase in rising inflation, Stephen makes his first-ever ETF investment, and negotiating HECS debts. Also: vacant homes; taxing shares, options and income; some welcome general advice from Alan; forecasting rental growth; tenant's rights and much more.

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On the Money Café this week, Alan Kohler and Stephen Mayne discuss the success of Aesop and Guzman y Gomez, chat about Elon Musk’s latest musings, take a closer look at Bitcoin, and crunch through a number of listener questions.

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On the Money Café this week with Alan Kohler and Stephen Mayne, again: visiting pokie clubs, the RBA pause and how long it will last, the lack of a morning tea at Scentre AGM and Trump, again. Also: the construction mess, the US dollar and digital currencies; short-term rentals; investing in a townhouse; more on the GST; submarines or oil refineries; Hawke and Keating; and more, much more!

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On the Money Café this week with Alan Kohler and Stephen Mayne, the open letter pleading for a moratorium on AI research, raking over the ashes of Credit Suisse and the Swiss government's credibility problems, the fate of pokies reform after the NSW election, Origin disappears into the hands of foreign interests. Also: short-selling on Lionstown; bureaucrats making it harder to get money; leasing electric vehicles and buying them; gender bonds; rental crisis and more.

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On the Money Café this week, Alan Kohler and James Thomson, Chanticleer columnist at the AFR, dissect Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s statements overnight, what it means for an Australian recession and where China fits in; Credit Suisse and aggrieved bondholders; and the role of governments in banking. Also: taxing unrealised capital gains, dividends from oil ETFs, franking credits, shares in a recession, protecting Taiwan, paying higher income tax, a long question on the safeguard mechanism and more, much more.

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On the Money Café this week, SVB, Credit Suisse, Paul Keating - where to start? Well, with China's extra-large, heavily armed uncrewed submarines. Alan Kohler and Stephen Mayne weigh submarines, Credit Suisse and shareholders mis-speaking, SVB shareholders being crushed, interest rates, and US Treasuries. Also, Centrelink pension vs million-dollar homes, HECS debt, when to buy shares, Cali-style housing quotas, American NIM, nominal vs real, and why you should subscribe to Eureka Report!

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On the Money Café this week, Alan Kohler and James Thomson rake over all the action on the central bank front in Australia and the US and consider whether or not talking is a more effective monetary policy tool, discuss what happened at the latest AFR event, and being Zen about the budget. Also: the fixed rate cliff; capped fees and ETFs; the cost of renewable energy; taxing unrealised capital gains and Pandora's box, do banks get it right on interest rates? There's more, much more! Tune in.

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On an early Money Café this week, Alan Kohler and Stephen Mayne tackle a deluge of super-related questions including: is $3 million too low for a cap; how much the government will make from breaking an election promise; and what public servants pay on their defined benefits. Also: spectacularly failing to get on the Aristocrat board, billionaires bickering, international students and rents and whether RBA Chief Lowe should stay on.

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On the Money Café this week, Alan Kohler and James Thomson, Chanticleer columnist at the AFR, wonder how much the new debate on superannuation is going to cost the government, discuss why noone's listening to RBA Chief Lowe anymore, when super funds going to take a look at unlisted asset valuations and why long-term bond rates matter when they do. Also: CBA's share buyback; directors selling their own shares; making cars in Australia; and currency wars.

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