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China's digital currency pl...

04.08.2021

This week on The Money Café, Alan Kohler and James Kirby discuss why bonds bear bad news. Also on the agenda is the use of buyers’ advocates & questioning whether currency hedges can work forever. To read articles on the ...

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04.08.2021 China's digital currency plans - big deal or not? This week on The Money Café, Alan Kohler and James Kirby discuss why bonds bear bad news. Also on the agenda is the use of buyers’ advocates & questioning whether currency hedges can work forever. To read articles on the ...
04.01.2021 Is AMP an impossible job? This week on The Money Café, Alan Kohler and James Kirby discuss the secret tax break in vintage cars, question the rush to the regions, and look at how to get a stock pre-IPO. To read articles on the topics ...
03.25.2021 Why balanced funds may not be the best from here Doug Turek joins James Kirby in this week’s episode of The Money Café to discuss off-the-plan property, chasing dividends and the crazy story of Airtasker's IPO. To read articles on the topics Alan and James cover in this episode of ...
03.18.2021 Why rates won’t rise InvestSMART’s Head of Strategy Evan Lucas joins James Kirby in The Money Cafe this week to discuss if it’s possible to find a residential property ETF. Also on the agenda is bitcoin’s big energy use and whether house prices are ...
03.11.2021 Bitcoin versus gold In this week’s episode of The Money Café, Alan Kohler and James Kirby delve into the property market as Sydney house prices accelerate again. The pair also discuss why people are saying goodbye to saving for now and whether a ...
03.03.2021 Pay off the mortgage? Not so fast In this week’s episode of The Money Café, Alan Kohler and James Kirby discuss the prospect of Bitcoin in your super. Also on the agenda is Afterpay bringing back the zero coupon deal and big mouth Bernie Fraser. To read ...
02.25.2021 Standby for the solar ‘tsunami’ On this week’s episode of The Money Café, Alan Kohler and James Kirby delve into the mystery of the unlicensed adviser and her missing $20 million. The pair also discuss Bitcoin’s bad week and the phenomenon of magic mushroom investing. ...
02.18.2021 How to invest a million-dollar windfall? In this week’s episode of The Money Café, Alan Kohler and James Kirby discuss the brutish and arrogant Facebook. The pair also look into the rise of Clubhouse and take a deep dive into the Iranian stock exchange. To read ...
02.11.2021 JobKeeper... time to press for payback In this week’s episode of The Money Cafe, Alan Kohler and James Kirby discuss the truly awful AMP and why Crown can’t go on like this. Also on the agenda are the inflation worriers and an explanation of who’s behind ...
02.04.2021 GameStop: Storm in a teacup? Alan Kohler and James Kirby are back in The Money Cafe this week to discuss whether austerity is back on the agenda. The pair also wonder whether a central banker would make a good Prime Minister and estimate China-based ETFs. ...
01.28.2021 Mad markets – hunting with wolves! James Kirby and Alan Kohler are back in the virtual Money Cafe to discuss the GameStop controversy and hedge fund comeuppance. Also on the agenda is the property investment market's shot in the arm, whether the higher inflation number actually ...
01.21.2021 Can a bubble last for years? Alan and James return to Saporito for the first Money Café of 2021 which is labelled the year of the electric car. Also on the agenda is a discussion on the future of the office REIT, the flying Aussie dollar ...
12.10.2020 What investors learned in a year to forget. IPO boom surfs a wave of optimism. Is it time to re-educate economists? In the last episode for 2020, James and Alan look back on what they've learned from a dreadfully difficult year, and the trends that seem likely to dominate the one on the horizon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
12.03.2020 House prices are going up, yes, really. Can Australia reset its trade relations with China? The winners and losers of rising super guarantees. As we round into the home stretch of a dreadful year, things are starting to look strangely optimistic. House prices are going up, the recession appears to be waning, and there's a COVID vaccine in sight. On this week's episode, ...
11.26.2020 Why Bitcoin is back. State budgets damn the deficits. The secret of multi million super accounts After a year that has redefined turbulence, it appears that most investors are going to finish... flat? James and Alan talk about the surprisingly upbeat end to 2020, crypto, state budgets and electric cars on this week's episode See omnystudio.com/listener ...
11.19.2020 Bitcoin – The Second Coming. The Vaccine Race- Will Big Pharma play fair? China's booming sharemarket. Share swapping and CGT. Bitcoin’s second coming has Alan Kohler and James Kirby questioning whether people are losing faith in the US dollar. The duo also ponder what other reforms might be pushed through during the COVID-19 crisis on the back of NSW’s changes ...
11.12.2020 How to fix your rate regrets. Markets optimistic about a Trump transition. Beware faux ethical funds. Rates are on everyone's minds at the moment. Can you beat the bank? Alan and James provide their opinions on fixing mortgages on this week's episode, and pick over the smouldering remains of the US presidential election, before diving into ...
11.05.2020 Back in the cafe! Market is pricing in a Biden win. A lot more than a rate cut from the RBA. This week's episode was recorded as votes were being counted in the US Presidential election, but markets seem to have already warmed to the prospects of a narrow Biden win. Tech stocks in particular seem poised to benefit from that ...
10.29.2020 Is there a recession or not? How bank dividend cuts hurt retirees hardest. What If AusPost's Holgate had offered cash instead? As Victoria emerges from its lockdown, Alan Kohler and James Kirby take a closer look at Reserve Bank deputy governor Guy Debelle’s comment that a technical recession is over, and question how much that actually matters. Also on the agenda ...
10.22.2020 Gold regains lustre as an inflation hedge. Who wants a Crown with this much controversy? Investing in barrels can be whisky business Gold is back in vogue with investors, but what about cryptocurrencies? James and Alan discuss the idea of reserve banks creating their own digital currencies on this week's episode of The Money Cafe, as well ass the ongoing disaster at ...
10.15.2020 Our top 3 best stocks. How low will Lowe go? Does government spending really drop next year? With the RBA indicating another rate cut is imminent, Alan Kohler and James Kirby convene in the virtual Money Café to question how low Lowe will go. The duo also discusses whether government spending will really drop next year and ...
10.08.2020 Should you fix rates? The answer is obvious. What’s going on with super? As the dust settles from Tuesday’s federal budget, Alan Kohler and James Kirby reconvene in their traditional Money Cafe time slot to trawl through the budget’s entrails while looking into super reform and pondering where they would spend an extra ...
10.06.2020 Budget 2020: searching for surprises in a blizzard of measures James and Alan jump in to a spare room at the 2020 Federal Budget lockup to discuss a massive slate of fiscal measures largely already announced. It's a podcast of big numbers: debt, deficit, population growth and tax cuts all ...
10.01.2020 Budget predictions. Can you beat the house when fixing rates? The cities left behind in a housing recovery. James returns to the Money Cafe just as an enormous Federal Budget looms on the doorstep. This week, he and Alan discuss what next week's budget could contain, the increasingly bifurcated Australian property market, and how anemic interest rates s...
09.24.2020 How to prepare for a Presidential punch-on. Setting the bar on fund manager experience. Could COVID crush small industry funds? With James Kirby still on a locked down holiday, Alan is joined in the Money Cafe by Chris Weston, head of research at Pepperstone. Together the two of them look at the RBA's messaging on rates, the prospects of a ...
09.17.2020 ‘Buy the rumour, sell the fact’. The work from home revolution. A Minsky moment. Alan Kohler puts the markets under the microscope in this week’s episode of The Money Cafe as he is joined by Author and Publisher of The Pain Report, Jonathan Pain. The pair discuss what the Fed’s been up to, why ...
09.10.2020 Rio's road to perdition. Insuring the vaccines. Tech sell off: If not this time, next time This week on The Money Cafe, James and Alan chat about the widening gap between markets and the economy, vaccine insurance, the increased pressure on Rio Tinto's leaders after the Juukan Gorge fiasco and Warren Buffet's very diverse views on ...
09.03.2020 Recession… or something else entirely? Why the Future Fund is cashing up. Can we believe these house price numbers? Alan Kohler and James Kirby are back in the virtual café to flesh out yesterday’s GDP figures and why the recession label doesn’t capture the current economic situation. The duo also look at IOOF’s acquisition of MLC, the Future Fund’s ...
08.27.2020 The secret of BNPL success. What happens if Biden wins? How much for financial advice? Alan's back in the virtual cafe this week, and has a lot to catch up on as between market moves and corporate misbehaviour. He and James discuss the epic battle between commercial landlords and retailers, the institutional investors that were ...
08.20.2020 With special guest – Top financial adviser Sally Huynh. Early super withdrawal… is it taxed? A house in the city, a place in the country...can it be done? Top financial adviser Sally Huynh joins James Kirby in this week’s episode of The Money Café for a discussion on the key issues and investment trends emerging from COVID including gold’s spectacular rally, early super withdrawals and the stat...
08.13.2020 Mining a rebound. Government guaranteed gold? Revealing the 'jobkeeper stocks'. Resources expert Tim Treadgold joins James Kirby in the cafe this week for a detailed discussion about gold, iron ore, lithium, and how government stimulus could be a major boon for mining generally.
08.11.2020 Forward Slash special: the buy now, pay later boom Buy now, pay later companies are eating up an increasing share of the retail transaction market at a time when credit cards are on the wane. It's another example of neglected customers finding a better experience with an innovative start-up ...
08.06.2020 Is investing in gold ridiculous? Why keeping an eye on US markets is a must. Suspension of insolvency laws and your portfolio. With Alan on a lockdown holiday, James is joined by financial adviser Doug Turek for a distanced chat about how he is managing portfolios in 2020, and the haunting sense hanging over markets.
07.30.2020 The murkiest earnings season ever! Is something wrong at CSL? Early super withdrawal beats all forecasts. This week on The Money Café, James Kirby and Alan Kohler look ahead to the upcoming earnings season, look at what’s going on at CSL, examine the magnitude of early super withdrawals, mull over why Solomon Lew bought Myer and ...
07.23.2020 The fine detail of Australia's dire budget update. Could deferred loans be written off? The fix is in on Australian mortgages. Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has revealed the incredible damage COVID-19 has wreaked on Australia's finances. But a closer reading of the budgetary assumptions reveals a mix of optimism and pessimism. James and Alan discuss what is and isn...
07.16.2020 Anticipating Frydenberg's huge budget update. Gold leverage explained. The super withdrawl disaster accelerates. The Treasurer's mini-budget update on July 23 will be one of the most keenly anticipated Zoom calls of the year. Alan and James discuss the budgetary and human considerations being weighed up in this week's Money Cafe, and compare communist ...
07.09.2020 An exhaustive look at ETFs. A golden bubble? Income protection policies. With Alan off-duty, James invites Vanguard's Robin Bowerman on for a comprehensive explanation of how exchange traded funds work, and the ways that ETFs can help and hurt an investing strategy.
07.02.2020 Special Edition - Modern Monetary Theory - What the hell is it and why is everyone talking about it? Alan has created quite the stir through his recent fascination with modern monetary theory, or MMT. So, this week he and James thrash out the logic and potential drawbacks of this radical shift in thinking, and explain how Money Cafe ...
06.26.2020 Introducing: Forward Slash Introducing a brand new podcast from The Australian: 2020 has seen the world reshaped at an unprecedented pace. Eras that once spanned a decade fly past in the space of a month. Trends that lasted weeks are lucky to survive ...
06.25.2020 Recession brings a new wave of retail investors. Why fewer financial advisers should mean better advice. This week on The Money Café, James Kirby and Alan Kohler look into the number of new investors coming into the market, Qantas’ latest job cuts, the risk-reward ratio of bonds, and answer a number of listener questions.
06.18.2020 Market signals muffled as reserve banks buy up corporate bonds. The distancing rule that could ruin restaurants. Why Afterpay is soaring Zombie companies loom on the horizon of this week's episode as James and Alan discuss the potential impacts of the US Fed buying up bonds from businesses wounded by the COVID-19 shutdown. In Australia, Job Keeper appears to be the ...
06.11.2020 Why Kogan is on a tear. Crazy credit card fees. Assessing the FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) movement. This week Alan Kohler and James Kirby make their long awaited return to the Money Cafe to mull over the stock market recovery following the best 50 days on the market… ever, the disparity between credit card interest rates and ...
06.04.2020 Why a GDP recession matters. Will rioting bring markets back to reality? Learning from a tale of ETF woe. A week of mass protest in the streets of America hasn't subdued Wall Street. Is this rally too good to be true? James and Alan ponder how long stocks can soar in the face of civil unrest in this week's ...
05.28.2020 Capital raisings bonanza - did you get a fair share? Why tech titans will now extend their dominance. Inflation or deflation - which is the worry? Stephen Mayne joins James in the Money Cafe this week for an episode largely focused on a rash of capital raisings. Is the current system set up in a way that is unfair to retail investors? Why have some famous ...
05.21.2020 Is Amazon propping up world markets? Travel titans play hardball. Reading the last recession. Have we entered the Land of Oz? Where markets and the economy can persist in divergent realities? James and Alan space out on the big questions in this week's episode The Money Cafe, and attack a rising bag of listener ...
05.14.2020 Australia's misleading unemployment arithmetic. How the big banks will decide what happens to house prices. Will we work from home forever? After the release of today’s confronting employment figures, Alan Kohler and James Kirby unpack the numbers and reveal the true damage to Australia’s labour force. The duo also discuss the Commonwealth Bank’s grim forecast for property prices in this w...
05.07.2020 Wall Street Wakes! What to do if you regret accessing early super release? Using an SMSF to buy residential property. Have markets found the floor, or are we looking at another dip coming down the tracks? James and Alan compare notes on recent history and consider the shaky case for optimism in the future in this week's episode of The ...
04.30.2020 Weasel words and banking dividends. Could Australia escape a recession? Markets punt on a Crown takeover. Alan Kohler and James Kirby get stuck into a big week in finance which has been dominated by the banks and more big movements in the oil price. They also look to the US and whether its largest GDP contraction ...
04.23.2020 Big oil's bad days. Why unemployment data hides a far uglier reality. Was Virgin flying in the wrong direction from the start? James is back in the Money Cafe for a meaty discussion of a dramatic week of business news. Crashing oil prices have left some traders scrambling for space in the garage for a few extra barrels, and the RBA has ...
04.16.2020 An overly optimistic IMF outlook? How falling migration could hit the rental market. What’s the damage of a potential second wave? As March 23 becomes further and further away, Alan Kohler is joined this week by Principal of Minack Advisors, Gerard Minack, to ponder whether we have in fact, seen the bottom. They also question the IMF’s bullish economic outlook and ...

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