Missing Element In Rudd's War On Inflation

WE CAN'T say we haven't been warned. Yesterday's speech in Perth by the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, and Friday's speech in London by the governor of the Reserve Bank, Glenn Stevens, both make it clear that inflationary pressures in the Australian economy are the main worry of policy-makers rather than a credit crunch feeding through from the subprime home lending collapse in the United States.

Green & Mean

US makers may have embraced the electric car but horsepower also had a share of the limelight at the 2008 Detroit MOTOR show, reports Joshua Dowling.