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No, Ambassador Xiao, China is not a champion of free trade

It is not Trump’s tariffs but Chinese economic policies and practices over many decades that are the greater challenge to economic globalisation as...

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John Lee

Under Trump, America is becoming unrecognisable

Understatement and confidence, decency and expectation; that certain idea of the United States for which the country was once so admired, is...

yesterday 10

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Bret Stephens

No room for super complacency about cyber risk

Big super’s governance failures are now piling up coordinated cyberattacks targeted some of the nation’s largest industry funds.

yesterday 10

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The Afr View

Why we shouldn’t rule out an economic doomsday

Policymakers should be war gaming the worst scenario because never before has a single signature by a single individual raised the probability of...

yesterday 2

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Steven Hamilton

Trump’s chaos kills American exceptionalism

Investor belief in US superiority drove Wall Street to sky-high valuations, but the president’s trade war is now eroding this conviction.

yesterday 2

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John Kehoe

Trump’s mob boss approach to global markets will backfire

The US president has discovered that it is easier to shake down a law firm than to reshape the international trading system.

yesterday 7

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Gideon Rachman

Trump’s tariffs will isolate America from global trade solution

Many countries that share US concerns about China’s industrial subsidies will now see it as a more reliable trade partner.

yesterday 1

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Susan Stone

‘Don’t get even, get ahead’ should be Australia’s response

Now is a time for Australia to lean into the rest of the global trading system and play an even greater leadership role.

yesterday 1

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Simon Birmingham

Tariff war compounds fear over transmission cost blowouts

Evidence is clear that big energy projects are already costing more and more, and the breakdown of global trade will worsen it. But there is a...

yesterday 1

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Angela Macdonald-Smith

Markets have seen through Peter Navarro’s ‘tissue of lies’

The evidence against Donald Trump’s tariff adviser, and his “poorly designed and reckless” tariff hikes, is overwhelming.

yesterday 10

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Peter Swan

Labor is giving the people what they want to hear

Peter Dutton is struggling to compete with Anthony Albanese’s promises to protect voters from the new Trump world challenges - as opposed to facing...

yesterday 1

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Michael Stutchbury

Trump’s game of bluff on tariffs and tax

China is threatening to “fight to the end” if America imposes yet more tariffs. The respite on global sharemarkets is likely to be temporary if...

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Jennifer Hewett

Recession talk is premature

The major parties are jostling to be perceived as the best placed to manage the international economic turmoil. Australia needs cool heads to prevail.

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John Kehoe

Bullock was right about Australia’s shock absorber against US tariffs

Last week, the RBA governor said the exchange rate would be an important “buffer” in Trump’s trade war. It is what economists call it an “automatic...

previous day 5

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John Kehoe

Politicians are the problem behind the cost-of-living squeeze

Weak business investment and real wage growth is a design feature of the Albanese Labor’s care economy model that the Dutton Coalition is failing...

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Michael Stutchbury

Why Trump tariffs have upped the risk of a private credit GFC

It remains to be seen what risk triggers Trump 2.0 will bring and what contagion might flow within and between the regulated and NBFI sectors.

previous day 9

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Adrian Blundell-Wignall

Why did so many finance types delude themselves about Trump?

The surprising thing isn’t the outliers who saw the Trump tariff crisis coming, but that so many on Wall Street didn’t.

previous day 2

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Michelle Goldberg

ASX’s James Hardie waiver is not in the market’s best interests

The bourse has set a terrible precedent by being complicit in undermining shareholder democracy.

previous day 4

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The Afr View

Severe financial markets instability makes picking the trough elusive

Even veterans like Ellerston’s Ashok Jacob are having difficulty picking the bottom, as the seesawing in financial markets continues amid extreme...

previous day 3

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Joyce Moullakis

Trump dump a stiff examination of investment strategies

The complacent who have clipped the ticket during the good times will be exposed during the bad times at great cost to their customers and members.

monday 4

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The Afr View

Venture capital firm EVP was right to call the cops on StrongRoom

EVP committed venture capital heresy by reporting StrongRoom AI to the police. It angered fellow investors but has shown moral courage rather than...

monday 3

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Jessy Wu

Where’s the circuit breaker? Traders stare into abyss

It will require a lot of hope and optimism to go against a tide of panic and fear. Especially when the market feels the White House is content to...

monday 5

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Jonathan Shapiro

Cyberattack exposes Labor big super weakness

Cyber breaches and Donald Trump’s sharemarket rout have exposed further flaws in Labor’s compulsory super system and its union-aligned funds.

monday 4

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Michael Stutchbury

Trump’s idiocy will put a 2 in front of RBA cash rate by end of year

Retaliatory tariffs are a supply shock that will not only see the global economy lurch into a deep recession but will do so with a near-term...

monday 7

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Stephen Miller

10 per cent tariffs are what Trump-style mercy looks like

Donald Trump thinks we’ve been subsidising our lifestyles at the expense of his constituents. He is not entirely wrong and doesn’t care that he is...

monday 3

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Sinclair Davidson

ChatGPT told Trump how to set tariffs — and now the world’s paying for it

“Vibe governing” suggests policymakers are letting AI-generated content guide major decisions, leading us into surreal, potentially dangerous...

monday 8

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Rebecca Johnson

Tariff maelstrom bears down on Dutton’s election hopes

Labor is as alarmed as any government as Donald Trump’s sharemarket carnage unfolds. But it also sees a political advantage.

monday 3

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Jennifer Hewett

How Europe deals with Trump tariffs will be the market’s next test

The White House’s ‘liberation day’ is turning into a week of value destruction – and all eyes are on Europe as it draws up a hit list of US...

monday 10

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Joyce Moullakis

Trump’s trade war makes Dutton’s task harder on May 3

With the ASX set to slump a further 4 per cent at today’s opening, attitudes towards Trump’s revanchist protectionism are the wild card thrust into...

monday 10

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The Afr View

Work from home fiasco risks pleasing no one

Peter Dutton’s best hope is that voters give him points for admitting he overreached.

monday 10

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Phillip Coorey

Defending private hospitals is essential to “saving Medicare”

At Monday’s AFR Healthcare Summit, Mark Butler and Anne Ruston should rule in urgent reform that better balances needs of hospital operators and...

06.04.2025 10

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Terry Barnes

Teach kids online reasoning to ‘Adolescence’- proof childhood

The Australian government may be ahead of the game globally with its new social media bans, but laws can only ever be part of the answer.

06.04.2025 1

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Laura Gribble

Trump’s tariffs deliver a harsh truth for Australia

Too little thought has been given to the future of the Australian economy against the backdrop of a protectionist America.

06.04.2025 2

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James Curran

Time is running out and ASX boss Helen Lofthouse has no room for error

Any spike in trading volumes due to higher volatility and wild swings will heap pressure on the exchange, which is already navigating a regulatory...

06.04.2025 4

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Joyce Moullakis