I reported how the Q1 national accounts, released last week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), showed that ...

Asian share markets are having a mixed session across the region given the poor lead from Wall Street overnight with no news ...

The machines are running out of volatility to bid. The Market Ear. Biggest volatility crash in history* “The 63% decline in ...

Victoria’s budget finances are in disarray, with the state carrying the nation’s highest debt and lowest credit rating.

The ferrous complex is nothing flash, that’s for sure. But tariffs are yet to show much in its steel exports. These are ...

Chinese deflation marches on. In May 2025 , the national consumer price index fell by 0.1% year-on-year . Among them, urban ...

Gerard Minack destroys Australia’s sick economy. Australia remains stuck in a macro rut. Low investment and fast population ...

The Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA), which came into force in 2005, was a terrible deal for Australia that benefited the US at our expense. The Crawford School of Public Policy ...

The first session following the release of the latest monthly US jobs print is usually benign and that’s what we had across ...

Falling living standards is what he promised, and he’s not going to spend his political capital on anything else! AFR.

Melbourne’s population was about 3.5 million people at the turn of the century. It took 165 years for Melbourne to grow to ...

DXY can’t get off its knees. It’s not an AUD rocket so much as a tractor slogging it uphill. \ The big short is excellent ...