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Spain's border failed in front of the cameras last week. Australia's border never fails, which is exactly why our numbers deserve a harder question.
by Jafar Jalili - 13/08/2026 - 6 comments
Australia's artificial intelligence debate keeps circling around skills. Train more workers. Teach people to prompt. Build digital literacy. Those are sensible goals, but they leave out one group.
by Gleb Tsipursky - 10/08/2026 - 4 comments
It's not Victorians who are at fault, but their freedom to act is smothered by government overgrowth.
by Jim Penman - 5/08/2026 - 4 comments
the question Warsh appears to be posing is this: to tighten monetary policy, should the Fed raise the Fed Funds rate, or should it instead pursue quantitative tightening, letting the asset base run down?
by Michael Knox - 3/08/2026
It's winter and bushfires are rare, which is just the time when we should worry about them the most.
by John O'Donnell - 22/07/2026 - 2 comments
Imagine an economy where nobody ever gets fired; the unemployment rate is always low; GDP always goes up. How wonderful - and even better - we're living in it.
by Tim Butler - 13/07/2026 - 2 comments
Property investors are also considered fair game for a litany of special charges including a 0.5% p.a. impost on their borrowings relative to owner-occupiers.
by Brendan O'Reilly - 13/07/2026 - 8 comments
If politics is about 'The Economy Stupid' then Australia is actually suffering from a lot of stupid and even more confusion..
by Ben Rees - 10/07/2026 - 9 comments
What happens when Australia's favourite investment stops making financial sense?
by Alex Jamieson - 9/07/2026 - 1 comment
Australians believe that trade-offs don't really matter. This is false. Australia is still a constrained system, and we are testing limits.
by Tim Butler - 6/07/2026 - 1 comment
Jim Chalmers complained about the economy he inherited - too much debt, chronic deficit, low productivity - so what is the point of his last budget?
by Graham Young - 5/06/2026 - 7 comments
Negative gearing survived termites, dodgy solicitors and bad builders. Then Labor came for it.
by John Mikkelsen - 22/05/2026 - 53 comments

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