This Month
- Opinion
- Inflation
RBA should cut rates and not be fooled by trimmed mean inflation
The actual inflation rate Australian consumers and businesses feel is now within the designated target range of 2-3 per cent. The RBA should not ignore this.
December 2024
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Trump won due to worker resentment. Could the same happen here?
Beyond the effects on measured productivity growth, when it comes to shared prosperity, we also need to look at the role of pure profits.
- Opinion
- Interest rates
Reserve Bank is needlessly smashing jobs
By arbitrarily and wrongly defining full employment, the RBA will cause misery for vulnerable working Australians and small business owners that is entirely avoidable.
November 2024
- Opinion
- China relations
Australia a beacon for free-traders as Trump erects tariff walls
Australia is championing free trade at APEC and the G20 meetings. China’s practical support will now be critical.
- Opinion
- Monetary policy
What is the Reserve Bank waiting for? The data says cut
If Martin Place insists on holding the cash rate until unemployment rises substantially, it risks plunging Australia into a painful recession.
October 2024
- Opinion
- Australian economy
How Australia can help save rules-based trade
The global trading system of trade rules faces its gravest crisis since its inception. There is a way out and Australia can help.
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Who killed economic reform? There are plenty of suspects
Modern elections have become a race to rule policies out, not a way of launching big ideas.
September 2024
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Dutton’s nuclear folly is an economy wrecker
Under the Coalition, Australian manufacturing would face a decade of uncertainty and taxpayers would finance the renationalisation of electricity generation.
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Rate decisions have to follow the data, not the dogma
Leading economic indicators have to be our guide, and they are all pointing towards an avoidable recession.
August 2024
- Opinion
- Monetary policy
Why you should hear out Andrew Hauser
The recessionistas out there should be listening to the RBA deputy governor’s warnings against overconfidence in predicting the economy.
- Opinion
- China relations
High-level dialogue shows China chill is ending
The resumed annual face-to-face meeting of government and industry has been crucial to stabilising the relationship.
- Opinion
- Monetary policy
RBA must say no to the Recessionistas out there
The Reserve Bank is taking its dual mandate seriously and seems to be ignoring the incessant clamouring for another rise in the cash rate.
July 2024
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Albanese can’t afford distractions now
The prime minister has to shrug off culture wars and Green taunts to focus relentlessly on an improving economy.
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Economic logic always trumps junk politics
Brexit, MAGA trade policies, and the Coalition’s nuclear power push will fail because they make no economic sense.
June 2024
- Opinion
- Supermarket inquiry
Why this is a practical, workable supermarket code of conduct
The new code offers the best of both a mandatory and voluntary system of compliance for the supermarket giants.
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Recessions are nasty and shouldn’t be engineered to tame inflation
Talk of a need to increase the cash rate is misguided – especially so when the main culprits behind the 3.6 per cent inflation rate are identified.
May 2024
- Opinion
- Australian economy
We must protect Australia’s free and open economy
Australia prospered in an open postwar world economy. But a new generation has less faith in it.
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Gas critics are signing up for coal and candles
The climate movement needs to ask itself what is worse: gas in the new energy mix, or coal that lingers for longer.
April 2024
- Opinion
- Monetary policy
RBA must ignore the band of economists pushing a rate rise
The Reserve Bank should not be firing up its interest rate models on the strength of inflation that is now steadily dropping into target range.
- Opinion
- Supermarkets
Compulsory grocery code strikes right balance
The interim report seeks to prevent big supermarkets from abusing their market power while rejecting populist policies such as forced divestiture of stores.