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Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Stand by for the oddly designed Stage 3 tax cut that will send middle earners backwards and give high earners thousands
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The Reserve Bank is pushing up interest rates to take money out of our hands. The first increase in the current round will add about A$...
Wednesday, May 04, 2022
Why the RBA should go easy on interest rate hikes: inflation may already be retreating and going too hard risks a recession
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One of the stranger things about the Reserve Bank’s announcement of why it’s lifting interest rates by 0.25 percentage points is that it s...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
The 4 economic wildcards between now and election day
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There are four economic wildcards between now and the election, and we know exactly when each will be played. The first is...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
This model tipped the last 2 elections. It’s pointing to a Coalition win
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This election will be won by the Coalition and Prime Minister Scott Morrison if the economic models perform as expected – and...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Forget the election gaffes: Australia’s unemployment rate is good news – and set to get even better by polling day
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When Labor leader Anthony Albanese couldn’t say whether the unemployment rate was 5% or 4% on Monday, he might have had a point. It’s 4% ...
Monday, April 11, 2022
One issue matters more to top economists than any other this election: climate change
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Offered a menu of issues to choose from as the most important in the May 21 election, Australia’s top economists have overwhe...
Wednesday, April 06, 2022
The super giveaway that gives more to the already-wealthy, tax-free
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One of the strangest, certainly one of the hardest to justify, measures in last week’s budget was called “ supporting retirees ”. A bett...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Budget 2022: Frydenberg spent big, but (on the whole) responsibly
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Wes Mountain/The Conversation , CC BY-ND So good, and so unexpected, has been Australia’s econ...
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Cut emissions, not petrol tax. The budget economists want
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Overwhelmingly, Australia’s top economists would rather the budget funds measures to cut carbon emissions than cuts income tax or company ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Why Australia’s Reserve Bank won’t hike interest rates just yet
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The biggest question relating to the management of the economy right now has nothing to do with next week’s budget . It has everything to d...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
It’s hard to find a case for a cut in petrol tax – there are other things the budget can do
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Cutting petrol tax to bring down the cost of living used to be the political version of a joke. Failed US presidential candidates John McCa...
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