No easy ride waiting for election winner
Is there just the slightest sense that this might actually be a good election not to win?
Terry McCrann
Rate rise is unlikely to be deciding factor
Will next week’s official Reserve Bank interest rate rise and the mortgage rate hikes it will trigger hurt or help the Government?
Afterpay’s after-burn shows why cash is king
Maybe cash really is king right now after all, as global markets get all wobbly in the face of rising interest rates.
Time for the RBA to do its job properly
There is a growing realisation that the RBA might make its first official rate rise in nearly a dozen years at its coming meeting on Tuesday week.
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Can NSW save us all from Victoria?
Australia will get a positive GDP growth number for the September quarter, but the size is dependent on NSW not heading down Victoria’s path of recession, writes Terry McCrann.
Dan Andrews’ ban on drug Trump Derangement Syndrome
Dan Andrews’ ban on hydroxychloroquine is nonsensical and reeks of anti-Trump behaviour, writes Terry McCrann.
Why there’s no such thing as ‘good’ inflation
Most economists in their mindlessness see negative inflation – falling prices – as a bad thing. But the last thing jobless workers and battered businesses need right now are price rises, writes Terry McCrann.
Victoria’s disaster could become a national one
Victoria’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic is bordering on criminally negligent and the economic impact has started flowing across the border into the other states, writes Terry McCrann.
RBA buries free money cargo cult
RBA governor Philip Lowe is providing a foundation of stability in this time of plague, volatility and monumental, confusing and continually changing uncertainty, writes Terry McCrann.
The ‘good’ deficits we had to have
They are the “good” deficits we had to have, and if we can get the economy — and our lives generally — back to some sort of normality, they’ll be much smaller in the years to come, writes Terry McCrann.
Victoria the key to country’s financial journey
Victoria has now the pivot for what happens with the virus, meaning the key to what happens with the national economy and all states and federal budgets depends on our state, writes Terry McCrann.
Is this a calm before another financial storm?
The world economy isn’t heading back to the depths of recession. But what happens on Wall Street and in Washington has as much bearing on Australia as any second virus wave outside of Victoria, writes Terry McCrann.
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