Business
The economy
Opinion
Inside China
China’s ‘artificial sun’ has sent shockwaves through the West
The emergence of a grainy series of satellite images taken over a city in central China has fuelled fears about the future of energy.
- by James Titcomb
Latest
Opinion
Trade wars
Trump fires first shot in his self-destructive war on the world
Donald Trump has spent the first two weeks of his second term as president sowing chaos and fear within the United States. Now he’s doing the same around the world.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
Education
Want more economics students? Drop the obsession with maths
Fewer students are studying economics at high school, and few of those go onto a dedicated economics course at university. And that’s a problem.
- by Ross Gittins
Analysis
Trade
What are tariffs and how do they work?
Get the lowdown on who pays for them, what they protect and how countries may retaliate.
- by Paul Wiseman
Opinion
Inflation
If you get the sense inflation is a little off, you’re probably right
The consumer price index isn’t an accurate measure of our cost of living – although we all assume it is.
- by Millie Muroi
Opinion
Skills shortage
620,000 workers who could solve our skills crisis are hiding in plain sight
Hundreds of thousands of overseas-trained workers living in Australia have the skills we desperately need. We just need to activate them.
- by Melinda Cilento and Violet Roumeliotis
Opinion
Federal Reserve
The Trump shadow hangs over interest rates
The US Federal Reserve Board has left rates on hold as it waits to see Trump’s trade, immigration, tax and deregulation policies and their effects on the US economy.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
AI
China’s DeepSeek miracle is not everything it seems
China’s Communist Party could hardly have wished for a more obliterating propaganda stunt to cut Trump’s strident new America down to size. But cracks are starting to appear in its story.
- by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Opinion
Climate policy
This could be the year voters get their priorities wrong
A protest vote on the cost of living will achieve little. The best election outcome would be a minority government dependent on the support of those who get the urgency of climate action.
- by Ross Gittins
Opinion
Interest rates
Trump is set to put the blowtorch to an old enemy
Donald Trump is demanding lower interest rates as soon as possible. He is likely to be disappointed – and an old foe will feel the brunt of his displeasure.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
Population
Should we really go forth and multiply?
A drop in migration and a global slide in birth rates won’t stop Australia’s population growth. That will come with its challenges.
- by Millie Muroi
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