Jamelle Agbuis

The Australian Financial Review's front page recently featured a headline that is either delusional or pure genius.

It would appear not. There's just not that much that bothers investors these days. Central bankers have it all under control. After waiting for months for another round of quantitative easing, Ben Bernanke reckons there's no pressing need to do anything. Or so he said on day one of his two-day testimony to the US Congress.

'Falling export prices a risk to surplus' says today's front page headline in the Financial Review. The article draws on a recent report by Chris Richardson at Deloitte Access Economics. The crux of the argument is that the mining investment boom is about to peak. Given China's slowdown, there are no new big projects on the horizon. So Richardson reckons the mining boom has two years left, max.

Recently a BRW Cover had the title "Secrets of the Real Estate Industry" in big bold type with a sub heading stamp, "What they won't tell you", written by Nassim Khadem and heavily featuring Andrew Blanchut from PropertyNow. The article really takes a dive in the deep end and have some pretty strong words for real estate agents, just look at this quote from Andrew!

The EFSA is the European Food Safety Authority, and it considers it okay for a food to promote health benefits based on scientific proof. This is not the attitude of USA's Food and Drug Administration.

An American diet and banquets so big the 'tables groan under the weight' have led to an alarming obesity epidemic in Kuwait.

Researchers at Scotland's oldest and youngest universities have teamed up to explore the potential of exciting new gas-releasing materials for medical applications.

The notion of a business on wheels is not exactly a fresh one but, by adding an unexpected element to the deal, it takes the concept of innovative marketing to a completely new level making it more mainstream.

According to some critical reports from the US Senate released on Monday, the Britain based bank HSBC has been handling drug money from some of the most secretive and notorious corners of the world including Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and the Cayman Islands.

Australians aged 60 and over spend more time watching TV than other adults and are at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a new study from The University of Queensland has found.

According to the reports released by a popular Business Magazine on Monday, the economy of Japan led by the robust reconstruction and spending of the consumers is still recovering after the country was hit by an earthquake only last year.

Among the four buyers who have potentially moved on to the second stage in the bid for the insurance business of Aviva in Malaysia are companies like Manulife and Prudential Plc. According to reports from the sources the deal is worth nearly about 500 million dollars.

Many people in the natural health community have been well aware of the health benefits of coconut oil and other coconut products for decades. More recently, "clean eaters" and people following an ancestral diet have been replacing canola oil and other cooking oils with coconut oil. Unfortunately, some people do not realize that certain brands of coconut oil pose serious health risks. Innocent health seekers may be consuming a product that makes them sick.

New research predicts that by 2017 Australians will be spending $31.8 billion dollars per year on home-brand (also known as “private label” products or “supermarket brands”) products, which will account for more than 30% of supermarket sales. International business information research firm, IBISWorld, today released the results of its survey into private-label spending by Australians.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is once again busy funding efforts to promote the spread of the agricultural cancer that are genetically-modified (GM) crops, this time in the form of a $10 million grant it recently issued to a group of British scientists working on new GM crops that require no fertilizer.

SYDNEY, 23 April 2012: Canon Australia has officially joined the Australia and New Zealand Recycling Platform (ANZRP), Australia's first not-for-profit, industry-run member body established to collect and recycle electronic waste.

A study released today by the Australian National University (ANU) has found that infants who are solely breast fed for the first six months may be more susceptible to nut allergies.

China is still interested in the expansion of its own businesses in Africa. Hence at the summit held in Beijing, in which took part 50 African leaders, president Hu Jintao made an important announcement.

German safety pioneer Mercedes-Benz will start fitting inflatable rear passenger seatbelts to its vehicles, in a move that will make the brand the second automaker to employ the safety technology behind Ford.

While many people wish to lose weight, healthy weight loss calls for consistency, dedication and time - the latter of these being a precious commodity. Researchers have shown that Interval Training (IT) can dramatically shorten workout sessions and maximize weight loss for those on a tight schedule.

The EFSA is the European Food Safety Authority, and it considers it okay for a food to promote health benefits based on scientific proof. This is not the attitude of USA's Food and Drug Administration.

An HIV prevention program for young Latino parents that was created in a community-academic partnership between the UCLA School of Nursing and the National Latino Fatherhood and Family Institute (NLFFI) is now recognized by the federal government as a model program that enhances the health and quality of care of at-risk populations.

We learned a valuable lesson from Mr Trebel once. Aside from teaching us art at high school, which yielded nothing valuable, Mr Trebel also supervised after school squash. He enjoyed thrashing the young delinquents who made his 9 to 3 job miserable.

We know none of this matters, but thought we'd discuss it anyway.

In the aftermath of the Aurora, Colorado Batman movie theater shooting, a surveillance video has surfaced that shows the simple, obvious answer to the question on everybody's mind: How do we stop a massacre?

Truvada this week became the first drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the prevention of HIV infection and AIDS in individuals at "high risk."

Today’s show features a great mobile phone application that takes the whole Social, Mobile, Local functionality to a whole new level and shows how the curation of user generated content can provide insights into so much more of the world that is currently going on around us.

Today’s show features a great mobile phone application that takes the whole Social, Mobile, Local functionality to a whole new level and shows how the curation of user generated content can provide insights into so much more of the world that is currently going on around us.

Vietnam is a country full of history and controversy, but the nation has also become one of the most interesting places to travel. With cheap flights now available to and from this country, there is no reason to leave it off of a top destinations list.