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Donald Trump’s tariffs have depressed the price of oil.

Trump’s billionaire oil industry donors aren’t getting what they wished for

The US president said “drill, baby, drill” but his tariffs tanked the commodity’s price and they could reduce, not increase, production.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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US President Donald Trump has sent sharemarkets into a spin.

‘Trump is doing permanent damage’: What’s got global market leaders spooked?

The meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank this past week have been dominated by the future of a key building block of globalisation.

  • Colby Smith
Illustration by Simon Letch

After polling day, our leaders will come clean about the trouble we’re in

By pretending that a planet-scale upheaval is not happening, our political leaders are not helping Australia deal with it.

  • Peter Hartcher
It wasn’t a great day for Donald Trump and his MAGA friends like Elon Musk.

The MAGA crew is waving white flags towards the Fed, China and Tesla investors

Tuesday wasn’t a great day for Donald Trump and his MAGA mates. But it was a great day for financial markets.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Trump cannot simply announce a partial freeze on tariffs and expect investors in the bond market to forget that he ever declared a global trade war.

Trump’s trade war could blow up the IMF and World Bank

Meetings of two of the world’s key multilateral organisations this week will be overshadowed by the prospect that the US will withdraw from the institutions it helped create.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Former students and parents of students at Newington College holding protest signs at the entrance of the private boys college.

Legal action to deny school change is abuse of privilege

I am really shocked that anyone would bother trying to sue a school for going co-ed. What is wrong with people that they feel they have to protect exclusiveness and the exclusion of girls?

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The International Monetary Fund says a major package of changes, from tax to land supply, is needed to make Australian housing more affordable.

Five Australian cities are now among world’s top 20 most expensive

The International Monetary Fund says nothing short of major reform can change the fact that Australian housing, across all international metrics, is some of the most expensive in the world.

  • Shane Wright
The ancient Lebanon city of Tyre bombed by Israel on Wednesday. Treasurer Jim Chalmers says an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East will hurt the global economy.

Global bloodshed biggest threat to economic recovery: Chalmers

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has used an address to the International Monetary Fund to warn growing military conflicts pose a risk to the global economy.

  • Shane Wright
Donald Trump will be front of mind at two key economic meetings this week.

The Trump shadow hovers as the global economy breaks apart

In the US and Russia this week, two meetings are being held at a critical moment for the global economy. In the background is Donald Trump.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has said the IMF’s findings backed the government’s economic management

IMF says Australia’s high interest rates are ‘essential’ – and may rise again

The “last mile” in Australia’s inflation battle is proving more drawn-out than expected, the IMF has found, raising the possibility of another rate rise.

  • Millie Muroi

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