MacroBusiness

Dear readers, MB has reached the next important phase in the evolution of its business model.

From all the team at Macro Associates, Happy New Year !

So peeps, after today I head off for a 4 week holiday, returning January 20, 2014.

Morning MBers, We’ve launched some new solutions for the recent upgrade bugs: comment numbers for mobile home page on/off switches for new/old mobile site (bottom of home page) comment email on/off option We’re still working on smoothing IOS compatibility and  it looks like Android has developed new issues.

Find below or from our dedicated podcast feed (click the purple icon in the “Follow Us” sidebar to subscribe) a new podcast with Leith van Onselen and Gunnmatta examining recent released tax statistics covering the use of negative gearing in the Australian property market.

By Chris Becker As our regular readers know, we recently launched the MacroBusiness Forum, a place for more robust discussion about any topic, and this week’s hot topic was no surprise – climate change.

By Chris Becker Last week, in response to our loyal readers and Members, we trial launched the MacroBusiness Forum, a place for more robust discussion about any topic.

I’m not generally enamored of round numbers but I can’t help noting that yesterday MB passed through the 1 million page views in a month barrier: Congratulations to us all (readers especially) for building a new, sane and increasingly powerful voice in Australian business media.

After your responses and support for our new Membership system, today we’re trialing the MacroBusiness Forum  – a place for more robust and varied discussion.

Dear MB reader, Yesterday we launched a new “MacroBusiness Membership” to support the running and development of the site.

So 2012 comes to an end and from midnight tonight 2013 greets us.

Well that is it folks.

As it’s the Christmas season many of the Macro Associates team will be taking a well-earned break over the next 4 weeks.

Yes, another survey!

For those who have wondered what the MacroBusiness business model is, or where the Macro Associates group is headed, next week will reveal all.

Just to reassure you, MB has no plans to go behind a pay wall.

Dear readers, No doubt some of you have noticed that in the recent past the MB site has been running slowly at times.

There’s not much new on the Budget today, with the haters gonna hate and the populists relaxed and comfortable but I did notice this video from the doyens of political commentary at The Australian.

I am pleased to inform readers that former Eureka Report investment strategist Michael Feller has responded to the call of Reynard’s conch shell, joining  Macro Associates, the owner of MacroBusiness.

A couple of weeks ago we asked the MacroBusiness community to give us some ideas for bylines for the introduction of some MacroBusiness paraphernalia in order to get Reynard the Fox some further recognition out there in the wider world.

Over the weekend we  did a bit of crowd surfing and put out a call to the MacroBusiness community for a byline to adorn some future MacroBusiness merchandise.

Leith is away for a few days so here’s a retrospective of some of his best posts to enjoy.