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Australian super funds are investing billions of dollars in assets and infrastructure overseas.

How your superannuation is becoming one of Australia’s biggest exports

There’s one major Australian export that is increasingly everywhere, but goes almost unnoticed, and it’s growing by the day.

  • Alex Joiner

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There would be no winners from a new Trump trade war.

Trade deficits don’t have to be wicked, unless you believe Donald Trump

Australia has a long history of running current account deficits – but that doesn’t automatically mean we’re doing badly.

  • Millie Muroi

When Trump says the world’s ‘a little crazy right now’, you know it’s bad

We should rethink the designation of 2024 as the year of democracy and think of it as the year when everything, everywhere, all at once seemed to go off the rails.

  • Nick Bryant
Donald Trump’s “America First” policies will rattle the global economy.

How Donald Trump will change how the world works

The lens through which Trump sees the world is narrow and focused tightly on whether a relationship directly benefits America. That sets up difficult choices for everyone.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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
Russian President Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin’s spies are plotting global chaos

The chief of MI6, Britain’s foreign-intelligence agency, says Russian intelligence services “have gone a bit feral”.

  • The Economist
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A Woolworths checkout in Sydney shows a dead screen during the CrowdStrike outage.

Massive outage shows the vulnerability of the global tech ecosystem

The CrowdStrike episode is chilling because it highlights how a single, flawed update from a trusted source can cause large parts of the global system to fail.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

Treasury steps up to limit ‘strategic’ security overreach

The risk of foreign disruption has to be balanced in such a way that economic activity is not unnecessarily curtailed.

  • Ross Gittins
Globalisation and the powerful economic forces it has unleashed have awarded unparalleled wealth and power to a tiny new elite.

Globalisation might be worsening inequality, but I’m OK with that

It’s important to look at exactly how globalisation has tipped the scale when it comes to equality.

  • Millie Muroi

The global economy already had a big problem. It just got much worse

The attacks in the Red Sea have threatened to throttle a vital part of the global economy that is already under pressure.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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