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IT IS back to basics for BHP Billiton. The miner’s year-long hostile tilt at Rio Tinto came to an official close yesterday when the UK Takeover Panel and European Commission allowed it to drop the $US66 billion ($102 billion) bid rather than wait for the competition regulator to block it in mid-January. At BHP’s annual…

Have you noticed that, though Kevin Rudd & Associates are too delicate to utter that dirty word “deficit”, they’re all too ready to use another D-word, Depression – as in “worst crisis since the Great Depression”? So he’s going to take us through a slump big enough to be compared to the 1930s and do…

Opposition frontbencher Andrew Robb says the Treasury’s latest economic figures have got “the smell of manipulation” about them because they differ from the Reserve Bank’s. The Reserve Bank yesterday released figures which show it expects growth to slow to 1.5 per cent, compared to Treasury’s prediction of 2 per cent. Mr Robb says it is…