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Australia’s last-mile inflation looks like the last 10 miles

The Albanese government took power promising to increase wages. It was a risky gamble that is not paying off.

29.04.2024 30

Financial Review

Richard Holden

The dangers in designing policy via opinion polls

From banks to supermarkets to AUKUS, governments use the wrong tools to get the job done.

16.04.2024 20

Financial Review

Richard Holden

Can Australia compete in the new post-inflation world?

The “new neutral” medium-term interest rate will make global competition for capital far more intense. The country needs to get ready for that.

02.04.2024 30

Financial Review

Richard Holden

Reserve Bank refresh is on shaky ground

Nothing good comes form negotiating with the Greens. The better option is Jim Chalmers cutting a deal with Angus Taylor to establish the new monetary...

19.03.2024 7

Financial Review

Richard Holden

Subsidise journalism, don’t shake down big tech

Meta and Google may be where the money is, but that doesn’t mean we should steal it from them. Even if it’s used for a good cause.

10.03.2024 30

Financial Review

Richard Holden

Garnaut-Sims power plan is big on ambition, short on logic

The $100 billion carbon tax proposal would penalise Australians, deter greener energy switches in Asia, and would be impossible to implement.

19.02.2024 7

Financial Review

Richard Holden

Bullock’s Q&A was what the RBA’s been missing

Gone are the days of Alan Greenspan-like, inscrutable “Fedspeak”. The straight-talking governor’s first media conference was all killa no filla.

06.02.2024 8

Financial Review

Richard Holden

Tax cut retreat is a loss in the global war for talent

This is the wrong policy done in the wrong way, driven by politics and the arbitrary structuring of the budget.

30.01.2024 10

Financial Review

Richard Holden

This is not America: rates are not coming down in 2024

There are no grounds for the cash rate to fall here in 2024. The Albanese government’s big job will be selling that reality to voters,...

03.01.2024 20

Financial Review

Richard Holden

Taxing foreign students will have a terrible cost

A levy will not make Australian universities more resilient, but the opposite. And visa scams and housing shortages should be addressed directly, not...

27.11.2023 10

Financial Review

Richard Holden

Raising interest rates was the only thing the RBA could do

The inflation fight is the cost-of-living fight. And now is no time to quit, writes Richard Holden.

07.11.2023 20

Financial Review

Richard Holden

Spurn trade, and make ourselves poorer

The world needs to update its ideas about free trade, not uproot them.

23.10.2023 5

Financial Review

Richard Holden

Labor’s economic policy is working at cross purposes

Full employment aspirations in the government’s white paper are to be applauded. It marks time to judge the Albanese government’s economic...

01.10.2023 4

Financial Review

Richard Holden

Why companies should maximise shareholder welfare

Qantas and Tim Gurner show why we need a new theory about corporate managers focusing on the interests of all stakeholders, while maintaining the...

19.09.2023 8

Financial Review

Richard Holden

The ugly truth: Australia is not a great place to invest

This country needs to get real about attracting investment, or it should prepare to get poor.

11.09.2023 5

Financial Review

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