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Prices will climb over the next decade, experts warn.

Someone’s doing the heavy lifting – and it’s not the government (any more)

Gold diggers aren’t the only ones stepping up as the government dusts its hands off. And that’s not a bad thing.

  • Millie Muroi

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers (right) and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Let’s stop kidding ourselves. Taxes will have to go up

No one wants to pay more tax. And the richest of us protest most and fight hardest when asked to cough up a little more.

  • Ross Gittins
Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers cannot win an election with one rate cut alone.

If we want to be a more productive nation, we would do well to follow the British example

The Albanese government has a unique opportunity to turbocharge the key mechanism towards a better standard of living: productivity.

  • Bran Black
Big crowds at the Australia-India test series helped lift the ecoomy through the December quarter.

Australia’s longest per capita recession since WWII comes to an end

A record seven quarters of falling GDP per person has finally ended, with new figures showing the economy improving in late 2024.

  • Shane Wright
Prices will climb over the next decade, experts warn.

The Australian economy is behaving strangely

Something weird is happening in the Australian economy, but it won’t faze the RBA yet.

  • Millie Muroi
Treasurer Jim Chalmers

A terrible set of numbers for a treasurer and Reserve Bank governor

No matter how much Jim Chalmers tries to find a golden thread in these bleak economic numbers, there’s no getting away from the fact consumers are scarred.

  • Shane Wright
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Australia’s economy is barely growing and shrunk in per capita terms for the seventh straight quarter.

‘Sad economy without hope’: Deepest hit to living standards on record

Treasurer faces questions about his ability to manage economy as public spending props up national accounts.

  • Shane Wright and Millie Muroi
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How we measure recession is wrong. Here’s a better way to do it

GDP is a flawed measure of the health of an economy at the best of times, and it’s time we paid attention to a different statistic.

  • Millie Muroi
The state of the economy ought to have given Kamala Harris a strong, positive story to tell during her campaign, but it’s not cutting through.

Harris has a good story to tell, but it’s falling on deaf ears

Donald Trump says the Biden-Harris administration has destroyed the US economy. Far from it, and the data proves it.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
A key measure of economic activity in NSW contracted in three months to June.

Our economy has turned into a tortoise. The Reserve Bank will be happy

Most of us know the saying: slow and steady wins the race. Here’s why a slowdown doesn’t worry the Reserve Bank – and why interest rates will probably stay put.

  • Millie Muroi

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