This Month
- Analysis
- Super wars
Big super is being put to the stress test
The sector is destined to become bigger than the $5.3 trillion banking system, but it’s unprepared for what happens when retirees draw down their balances.
- Opinion
- US Votes 2024
The inflation and immigration lessons of Trump
Donald Trump’s question to voters - “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” - has cut across gender and racial divisions.
- Updated
October
- Opinion
- Monetary policy
Why the RBA has a massive public education job to do
Inflation is high because of the stimulus that Canberra and the RBA poured on in the pandemic. But the public struggles to understand this.
The $US50 trillion ticking time bomb in America’s new exceptionalism
US households are becoming wealthier but, as taxpayers, they are increasingly on the hook for their government’s borrowing.
September
- Opinion
- RBA
RBA’s Bullock now has a bigger megaphone. But what should she say?
It’s possible the inflation problem is not about overheated demand, but rather the supply bottlenecks caused by lagging productivity.
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Corporate Australia can’t let Albanese brush reform under the carpet
Business needs to get more on the front foot in calling out the policy and political class failure that most media coverage has normalised.
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Chalmers dumps his fiscal profligacy onto the RBA
The government has its foot on the spending pedal while the Reserve Bank tries standing on the brakes. There is no sign of the co-ordination that has been called for.
- Opinion
- GDP
Treasurer v the RBA: Why Chalmers and Bullock are both right
Jim Chalmers says the economy is getting smashed by high rates, but it’s still running too hot for the RBA. The answer is simple: productivity.
August
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Why Paul Keating is furious with Jim Chalmers
For the first time, the former Labor leader is slamming the Albanese government on economics rather than AUKUS. It’s all about the politics of aspiration.
- Opinion
- Inflation
Professors and populists all get inflation wrong
Despite what a Nobel prizewinner and Jacqui Lambie might think, growth is the only serious answer to inflation.
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Can our prosperity survive a year of political madness?
Public policy is now swinging in the populist wind. And it’s hard to imagine the election of a government that can rationally take back control of it all.
AFR editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury’s 17 most memorable front page stories
On his final day as editor-in-chief, Michael Stutchbury reflects on the stories that have chronicled the changing face of Australia, won awards, and ended careers.
July
- Opinion
- Media & marketing
The three strategies that saved the Financial Review
It had a competitive advantage of deep engagement with the Australian business community. But that was just the starting point, writes outgoing editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury.
June
- Opinion
- Australian economy
RBA’s new Englishman tells Aussies: you’ve forgotten how rich you are
If Australians don’t appreciate their fortune, as Andrew Hauser correctly points out, they may not be well placed to preserve it.
May
- Opinion
- Publishing
AFR will not walk away from WA
Political and business leaders in Western Australia say privately that Kerry Stokes has an unhealthy degree of media power in the state.
- Updated
February
Keating’s list of business greats spans miners and property moguls
Keith Campbell, Rod Carnegie and Marius Kloppers were all praised by the prime minister who oversaw a period of great change in the Australian economy.
Why Keating says he was lucky to avoid university
The former prime minister believed he needed more than a deep knowledge of one subject to pursue his ambitious reform plan.
Keating: It’s not just his age, Biden’s party lost the working class
The Democratic Party’s political problem is that it has lost touch with the concerns of ordinary working Americans, former prime minister Paul Keating says.
The Voice was a ‘mistake from the start’
Former prime minister Paul Keating is calling for an Aboriginal legislated body to build on the gains of native title.
- Exclusive
- Keating at 80
It’s time for Australia to break out of its ‘timidity’: Keating
At the age of 80, Paul Keating urges Australia to be bolder, to reassess its links with Britain and the US and its failure to reconcile with Indigenous peoples.