September 2023
Tax cuts will keep RBA on interest rate sidelines for longer
The budget will soon add the equivalent of around three interest rate cuts into the pockets of punters, bringing relief for taxpayers before borrowers.
August 2023
Productivity is going to take revolution, not evolution
It’s hard to generate big gains in service-driven economies. That means we should take the Productivity Commission’s advice – then go even further.
May 2023
Why do Americans believe their economy is bad when it isn’t?
What the data says, and how workers and consumers perceive it, are two very different things. Blame economists for this.
January 2023
Chaos in US Congress rolls on: ‘I’m never getting sworn in, am I?’
Without a speaker, the House cannot convene and start official business, and restive lawmakers were once again left hanging in the balance.
We must make this the year of productivity
The ACTU must realise that many of the proposals in a major new Productivity Commission report will align with its own goals.
October 2022
How long will it take to recover the money we’ve lost this year?
After this year’s slump in share, bond and property prices, investors are wondering whether they’ll ever get back to the position they were in at the beginning of 2022.
April 2022
No quick fix for higher living standards
Productivity and incomes in Australia are driven by research and education. And the hard truth is that we, as a country, have given up on funding either of those things properly.
April 2021
The EU’s stability will again confound its critics
The EU is a careful and evolving balance between national and supranational power, and between technocracy and democracy. That is a source of stability and strength, not of weakness or frailty.
January 2021
There was no carnage, just poetry
Americans heard a call for unity and a staunch defence of their most hallowed institutions as Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th US president.
Australia gets the biggest cost cut of our lifetimes
The country is saving the equivalent of an NBN each year as the cost of sustaining our ballooning debt plummets.
April 2020
Coronavirus and the threat to US supremacy
COVID-19 has targeted America’s weaknesses, while making many of its strengths temporarily irrelevant.