Little Bookroom owner Leesa Lambert creates a relaxing environment for last-minute Christmas shoppers.

‘The time pressure helps’:Anatomy of last-minute Christmas shopping

Melbourne indie bookstore owner Leesa Lambert deliberately does not play Christmas carols in her store to try and decrease stress for last-minute shoppers.

  • byHannah Kennelly
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A Guzman y Gomez outlet in Sydney.

Rolled gold burritos,AI mania and ‘mother of all bubbles’ were big business in 2024

It proved to be a volatile year for the big end of town,but it’s investors who face a day of reckoning.

  • byColin Kruger
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This week’s Bulls N’ Bears Runner of the Week is… icetana,which secured a three-year Malaysian AI security deal as Patriot Lithium and Mesoblast also celebrated big wins.

  • byJames Pearson
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Putin’s spectacular act of self-sabotage has killed the Kremlin’s biggest market

Gazprom was for decades Russia’s biggest money-spinner and the most striking symbol of the Kremlin’s influence abroad.

Ben Marlow

Why bribery is key to boosting our economic prosperity

The key to making us better off in the long term – lifting productivity – may require the feds to offer incentives to the states.

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How Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can resolve US-China relations

While we were sleeping,China took a great leap forward in high-tech manufacturing of everything. Will China bury us? That is not at all inevitable.

Thomas L. Friedman

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Zac Leigh was locked out of a Tame Impala gig. Now he’s raised $8m

A start-up born after its founders were stung by ticket scams is now expanding to the US and the UK.

  • byDavid Swan
MoveActive socks in action.

The right move:How Melissa’s business turned exercise into profits

Meet the Melbourne businesswoman whose product has become indispensable to Pilates enthusiasts everywhere.

  • byEmma Koehn

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