There are so many issues coming out of the Royal Commission into banking that its hard to maintain the outrage. Here is yet another one that might have slipped through in the torrent of mis-deeds:

The collective offices of financial planners around the continent are no doubt quiet this week as the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services call up the big boys of the advice world for hearty "please explain?"

David Harrington from IAG channels Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it".

There have been changes proposed by the Labor party to imputation credits. We have put together a quick series looking at a number of aspects for investors:

The dust is starting to settle a little on the Labor party's recent proposal to stop the refund of unused franking credits and lines are slowly being drawn in the sand in preparation for battle.

I have blogged a number of times about self-driving cars being the key to working out the path for oil prices and so it is important to work out if the recent pedestrian death by an Uber self-driving car is a sign that self-driving cars are further away than we expected.

The last few weeks have confirmed our view that most of the cash from Trump tax cuts will end up as dividends or buybacks. At the same time, we are awash with articles warning of the dangers of buybacks, from Vox to the FT to the Harvard Business Review.

Labour has proposed a number of changes to franking credits paid on dividends. The proposal absolutely has some merit behind it, as a system set up so that people weren't taxed twice has evolved into a system where some people get taxed zero times. But the current implementation has significant ...

The main concern that I have with profit growth driven by tax cuts is that it doesn't reflect true economic strength.

In amongst all the palava and typical political tomfoolery that has dominated the news recently, there has been some quiet angst building in the background centering on the fact that common household savings may now be put in jeopardy in the event of a bank collapsing.