This week James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald look at the oil shock that’s spreading through the real economy and financial markets, they examine the AI job losses at the original Aussie tech icon and take you inside the sharemarket float of an Aussie company that’s helped change the retail game.

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Further reading:
4 factors that make you most susceptible to the white-collar ‘wipeout’
An education used to be seen as insulation from workforce disruption, now it might be the thing that proves your undoing.

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This week James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald recap the biggest week of the year to date. They discuss the war in the Middle East, the war on jobs thanks to AI and the new opposition leader Angus Taylor's war on debt and deficit.

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Live from the Financial Review's 2026 Business Summit, James & Anthony wax lyrical with the AFR Business Person of the Year 2025, Mike Dorrell.

Recorded over breakfast, Wednesday, March 4th.

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This week James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald look at AI’s melting moment on Wall Street, they give you their best and worst of corporate Australia’s profit season and they look ahead to the AFR’s premier event, the Business Summit.

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This week James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald ask whether we’ve hit 'peak Australia', they share their most interesting observations from earnings season and take a burning question on the housing market.

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This week James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald look at the new war that’s broken out in the banking sector, ask why three CEOs left blue chip companies in three days, and tackle the tricky problem of taming inflation without hiking interest rates.

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This week James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald discuss the two big moves in markets this week: interest rates and tech stocks. They take a question on who should oversee government spending and get excited for the busiest time of the corporate year, reporting season.

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James and Anthony had a phone catch-up over the weekend and are looking forward to coming back strong on Friday, Feb 6th.

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