One of the key issues is whether or not these figures, both the good and the bad aspects, will make any difference to the deliberations of the Reserve Bank next month. Is there enough in the data to affect their thinking?
The outgoing Canadian PM is a victim of economic crisis and his woke obsessions, a drastic fall from grace from the once beloved leader.
While the Leader of the Opposition outperforms Trudeau on many issues plaguing Canadians, the final blow was Trump’s re-election.
We’re not the only country facing low or negative productivity, but we need to work out why.
Donald Trump appears to regard tariffs as a political and geo-strategic weapon as much as an instrument of economic protection of local industries. For him, it’s really all about negotiation.
Following the money is a useful guide to understanding what is going on in the public square. The revelations about the CFMEU and Cbus are really the tip of the iceberg.
MYEFO shows spend and tax is in Labor’s DNA. But there are no Peter Walshes or Paul Keatings to take an axe to excessive spending.
Chris Bowen refuses to acknowledge what’s going on in virtually every developed economy around the world and some developing ones too.
The only conclusion to draw is from Thursday’s overshoot on net overseas migration figures is that the Canberra bureaucrats don’t really know what they are doing.
The bigger ticket item the PM is contemplating is a flat-fee model for all users. It would be crazy, but that probably won’t stop him.
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