Grim reflections: the slow death of an industry THE AGE | In the mid-1960s, when Australia's trade minister Sir John McEwen was urging Holden and Ford to seek export markets in Asia, the leader of one of Asia's poorest countries decided his country needed a car industry.
25th May
Buildplan creditors hurting THE AGE | Debts to tradespeople and suppliers by collapsed builder National Buildplan Group have blown out to $58 million but administrators say they are likely to recoup only cents in the dollar.
Big spenders go for Coffey THE AGE | Beaten-down stocks linked to the resource sector featured on the directors' trades front this week.
25th May
Bernanke all talk, no action (yet), on stimulus THE AGE | There's a simple message in what appeared to be conflicting statements from the Federal Reserve, its chairman, Ben Bernanke, and an assortment of other Fed heavies this week about the timing of a move to re-tighten monetary policy.
Island allure: The tax secrets of big business THE AGE | With many of Australia's largest companies owning offshore subsidiaries in exotic locations, there are fears the structures are being used to minimise tax, write Georgia Wilkins and Ben Butler.
