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Monday, September 23, 2024

How to avoid being conned by business lobby groups

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The obvious question arising from big business’s onslaught against Anthony Albanese and his government is: do Australia’s voters know which ...
Friday, September 20, 2024

Why the planet needs the economy to go round in circles

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By MILLIE MUROI, Economics Writer For as long as humans have walked the earth, we’ve grappled with this dilemma: how to satisfy our unlimite...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

The best thing our pollies have done in decades is also the worst

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With the coming departure from politics of Bill Shorten, it’s time to talk about his former bouncing baby, and now obese adult, the National...
Monday, September 16, 2024

All the reasons house prices will keep rising until we wake up

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Contrary to popular opinion, the cost-of-living crisis will pass. But the housing crisis will go on worsening unless politicians – federal, ...
Friday, September 13, 2024

Economists have a glaring problem: themselves

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By MILLIE MUROI, Economics Writer Economists don’t often get the chance to look at themselves. They spend their lives keeping a close eye on...
Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Our gambling obsession is doing great harm to addicts and their families

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I grew up in a strict, Salvation Army household where there was no drinking, smoking or gambling. My parents wore their uniforms everywhere ...
Monday, September 9, 2024

If there's no 'price gouging' how come interest rates are so high?

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The nation’s economists have a dirty little secret. They all believe that what the punters denigrate as “price gouging” is actually a good t...
Friday, September 6, 2024

Our economy has turned into a tortoise. The RBA will be pleased

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By Millie Muroi, Economics Writer Most of us know the age-old saying: slow and steady wins the race. Numbers released into the wild on Wedne...
Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Albo’s quiet quest: stop wasting so much taxpayers’ money

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If you’ve gained the impression that Anthony Albanese’s government is one that knows what it should be doing to fix our various problems, bu...
Friday, August 30, 2024

GDP is going backwards. That doesn't mean your life is, too

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By Millie Muroi, Economics Writer  If gross domestic product – better known by its nickname GDP – were a perfect reflection of our quality o...

How GPT (not that one) could help fix our inflation problem

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By Millie Muroi, Economics Writer ChatGPT is not the answer to Australia’s productivity problem. At least, not yet. But I asked ChatGPT what...

Think you've snagged a bargain online? It's you who's been snagged

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By Millie Muroi, Economics Writer  In a cost-of-living crisis, I’m sure I’m not the only bargain hunter who has put giant e-commerce sites T...
Monday, August 19, 2024

RBA worries too much about expectations of further high inflation

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Other central banks have started cutting interest rates, yet our Reserve Bank is declining to join them because, as governor Michele Bullock...
Friday, August 16, 2024

Why the Reserve Bank thinks it's too soon to cut interest rates

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By Millie Muroi, Economics Writer  When the Reserve Bank’s second-in-command – recently appointed deputy governor Andrew Hauser – took shots...

What does sharemarket turmoil tell us about our economy? Not a lot

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  By MILLIE MUROI, Economics Writer When the Reserve Bank board walked into their two-day interest rate meeting in Sydney this week, most of...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Misbehaviour thrives in our age of capitalism without capitalists

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There’s a vital lesson to be learnt from the latest episode in the saga of former chief executive Alan Joyce’s ignominious departure from Qa...