Featured Opinion
Energy transition will cost much more than politicians are pretending
The brutal reality is that taxpayers and consumers will be on the hook for much higher costs under a renewable or nuclear energy system.
Economics editor
Dutton’s populist break up big stick betrays Liberal principles
Cheap anti-business sentiment is fuel for the left and right-wing populists causing havoc in Europe and the US. No one should be rushing to bring it here.
Editorial
Slashing foreign student numbers would be economic self-harm
Before the government puts the squeeze on Australia’s $48 billion university export industry, it should consider how much GDP it is prepared to sacrifice.
BCA chief executive
Why we need to have a genuine look at nuclear energy
Nuclear energy is the kind of nation building policy we need when our lucky country’s luck is running out.
Robert Menzies Institute
What would a better Israeli prime minister do?
Israel needs to offer a postwar vision for Gaza and articulate the real stakes in this war – one battle in the struggle between the free and unfree worlds.
Contributor
Feckless liberals are to blame for Biden’s downfall
The left worldwide ignores problems on its own side, and recent history has turned on that failure.
Contributor
UK needs ‘moonshot’ growth agenda
After so many years of insufficient investment and sagging productivity, there is no singular, silver-bullet reform to achieve buoyant, durable, sustainable and inclusive economic growth.
Global financial commentator
Central banks have done their job. Now others must do theirs
Central bank independence from governments has proved its worth yet again. But it is politicians who now have to step up reforms that cannot be put off.
Central banker
Yesterday
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
New Hope makes it two convertibles in two days
It’s good to see the miners creative with their funding structures.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
‘If it was normal, I wouldn’t be in a job’: inside AustralianSuper’s year
CIO Mark Delaney realised he was too bearish and had to make an important call over Christmas. By April, it was reversed. Nvidia was at the heart of it.
- Updated
- Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Passive funds changed markets, but Grantham’s GMO says golden rule hasn’t
Active funds managers are worried about the weight of money heading into passive funds. And they should be.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- AI
The bear case against Nvidia and artificial intelligence
The computer chip company will struggle to sustain its growth as interest in AI wanes.
- Parmy Olson
- Analysis
- Open banking
They built it – but nobody came. Consumer data right needs help
Privately, bank bosses remain highly agitated about being more open about the valuable data they hold, the sharing of which could make competition more intense.
- James Eyers
- Opinion
- Open banking
Open banking offers a salutary tale
The lesson is that governments trying to regulate their way to a greater bank competition can have anti-competitive effects.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Superannuation
The super trick every couple should know about
It can make a material difference to your total retirement kitty and the tax you pay – but you need to get it right.
- Meg Heffron
- Driving With Tony Davis
- Motoring
Is this race-bred Porsche with driver harness too much for the road?
Some believe the turbocharged Porsche 911 GT3 RS is lucky to be road legal. After driving it, this is what we think.
- Tony Davis
This Month
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Bye-bye, banks: Liontown’s wild ride reveals critical minerals truths
The harsh reality of where the ASX’s two biggest sectors – banking and mining – cross over has played out before our eyes.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Power price inflation risk for RBA and Labor
Australia’s green energy superpower hope is cheap and clean power. The near-term reality is higher than expected electricity prices to the end of the decade.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
A resurgent Trump will have consequences for Australia
Trump 2.0 will pile rising expectations in Washington on Australia’s military readiness and on its strategic minerals. But that’s just the start.
- Patrick Gibbons
- Opinion
- Housing crisis
How to end our incoherent housing policies
There is no silver bullet to fixing housing affordability. What government can do is adjust the policy mix to make it more cost-effective.
- Jason Nassios and James Giesecke
- Editorial Of The Times
- US Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court gives a free pass to Trump and future presidents
In a step towards monarchy, the bedrock principle that presidents are not above the law has been set aside.
- The Editorial Board
- Opinion
- Populism
When the numbers just don’t add up
MAGA in the US and National Rally in France are both making voters big economic promises, but their ideas have some massive holes, writes Paul Krugman.
- Paul Krugman
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The underestimated bank boss with the strategic handball
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank’s Marnie Baker was underestimated on arrival. She leaves well regarded, albeit having failed to answer the big structural question over her bank.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- US election
Liberals panic worldwide as Trump, Le Pen rise
Liberals are in for a long struggle as nationalist populism surges in the US and Europe.
- Gideon Rachman
- Opinion
- US election
Supreme Court gives new reason to fear Trump’s return
Given his post-presidential behaviour, can anyone seriously view granting Donald Trump “official” immunity from his actions with calmness?
- Peter Spiegel
- Opinion
- The AFR View
On AUKUS, Australia must catch up, not start again – yet again
Australia’s political, diplomatic and defence chiefs need to work with AUKUS counterparts in America and Britain to find a way through the gridlock.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- AUKUS
AUKUS ‘moonshot’ may be a tragically expensive failure
It is alarming that both Coalition and Labor politicians fail to acknowledge the risk that Australia could be left with no submarine capability by the end of the 2030s.
- James Curran
- Opinion
- Investing
The best way to invest an inheritance
Buy shares with the lot or “drip-feed” into the market over a period of time? This is how the numbers stack up.
- Duncan Burns