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Myer’s Profit Woes
March 21, 2012CoreData’s Andrew Inwood comments on Myer’s profit fall and the implications for the Australian economy. [ Learn more ]
2011 Insights
December 14, 2011CoreData reflects on 2011 and shares with you some of the key insights from our research on more than 100,000 Australian consumers. [ Learn more ]
300 Years of Fossil Fuels
October 26, 2011Access to cheap fossil fuels has propelled economic growth and development for the past 300 years – but the wells are drying up. This five minute clip by the Post Carbon Institute outlines the story of fossil fuels in economic history and what the future potentially holds, after the world’s supply of fossil fuels is utterly spent. [ Learn more ]
The Crisis of Credit
September 28, 2011The global financial crisis (GFC) caused waves throughout the international economy and three years on, we are still haunted by the flow on effects. This 10 minute clip traces back to the source of the GFC (the credit crisis), telling the story of how we managed to get ourselves to where we are today. [ Learn more ]
US debt crisis rap
September 22, 2011The US debt crisis may have caused a lot of headaches in the Congress but at least someone has managed to make light of the situation. Comedian Remy Munasifi's rap on the US Government's financial impasse and decision to raise the debt ceiling is clever and catchy. But with the US debt woes showing no signs of abating (almost 40% of US Government spending relies on borrowed money) it's hardly a laughing matter for Obama. [ Learn more ]
The Mortgage Statement Fix
The design team from Brisbane, Humans in Design, have attempted to improve the accessibility of financial statements by giving the typically dull and overly complicated mortgage statement an overhaul. The key motivation behind the redesign is a belief that most people are unlikely to fully comprehend their statement unless it's presented to them in a digestible format. The central viewpoint is that any statement should start with a picture of the past and the present and then to link it to the future. [ Learn more ]