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Alan Kohler: Four years on and optimism is a little harder to come by

My first column for The New Daily not quite four years ago, was a bright, cheerful effort, listing the reasons to feel optimistic about 2021. Today...

15.12.2024 2

The New Daily

Alan Kohler

Alan Kohler: Forget The Day of the Jackal, this is The Day of the 100k Bitcoin

-Warning: contains TV spoilers- The value of Bitcoin hit its long-awaited milestone of US$100,000 ($156,000) on Thursday December 5. That was also...

08.12.2024 3

The New Daily

Alan Kohler

The prosperity and welfare of the Australian people have been dumped

When the RBA Review panel finished its work in March 2023, the cash rate was 3.6 per cent and the Reserve Bank hadn’t quite finished its work...

01.12.2024 2

The New Daily

Alan Kohler

Don’t expect quick rate cuts with immigration, Trump

A couple of months ago economists and futures punters were 100 per cent sure the Reserve Bank would cut interest rates by February at the latest;...

24.11.2024 2

The New Daily

Alan Kohler

Dutton unlikely to do a Trump as a populist

When Donald Trump won in 2016, I wrote that this was the first technological revolution in which the losers were able to vote. “In the Industrial...

10.11.2024 3

The New Daily

Alan Kohler

Seven columns in one on the US election

There are so many aspects to Tuesday’s US election, it feels like one column simply won’t do. So, here’s seven of them. Each side of politics in...

03.11.2024 2

The New Daily

Alan Kohler

Housing affordability is largely a matter of tax reform

The Victorian government’s blizzard of housing announcements this month, mainly directed at building a lot of high-rise apartments in 50 close-in...

28.10.2024 40

The New Daily

Alan Kohler

Why Australia has bullsh*t climate policies

The climate policies of both of Australia’s main political parties are based on bullsh-t. It’s part of a general malaise in policymaking where...

20.10.2024 1

The New Daily

Alan Kohler

Trump won’t be last demagogue; next will be better

According to the latest polling, 43.1 per cent of Americans have a favourable view of Donald Trump and 46 per cent say they will vote for him. This...

13.10.2024 1

The New Daily

Alan Kohler

Will Israel take this chance to end its perpetual crisis?

On the one-year anniversary of the terrible Hamas attacks on Israeli citizens, the price of oil is still US$10 per barrel below what it was on that...

06.10.2024 2

The New Daily

Alan Kohler

The Reserve Bank is being politicised

The central recommendation of last year’s RBA Review has been chewed up and spat out by politics, and in the process the bank is being...

16.09.2024 10

The New Daily

Alan Kohler

What Albanese and Chalmers should do next

It is, or should be, the solemn duty of a first-term government to take a program of reform to its first election as incumbent. The only time an...

09.09.2024 20

The New Daily

Alan Kohler

Query remains on our future source of prosperity

The boom in immigration and the shift in the economy from goods to services has made the normal aggregate data that the ABS measures meaningless....

02.09.2024 40

The New Daily

Alan Kohler

How Fujiwara Effect may profoundly change world

If you’re wondering how we got into this mess, Viktor Shvets explains it well in his new book, The Twilight Before the Storm: From the Fractured...

26.08.2024 90

The New Daily

Alan Kohler

How our immigration system caused housing crisis

One of the most important causes of Australia’s housing affordability crisis is excess immigration over many years, and the problem with...

19.08.2024 50

The New Daily

Alan Kohler

Kohler’s Housing ‘To Do’ list to tackle crisis

Australia has a new federal Housing Minister, Clare O’Neil, who is by all accounts energetic and open to new ideas. That’s good because we are in...

12.08.2024 30

The New Daily

Alan Kohler

There’s a lot at stake in Reno, Nevada

Imagine a world without Donald Trump and his mini me, James David Vance, and Rupert Murdoch and his mini me, Lachlan Murdoch. Can we even imagine...

29.07.2024 30

The New Daily

Alan Kohler

The week when decades happened in America

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”, said Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, and so it was last week,...

22.07.2024 40

The New Daily

Alan Kohler

Victoria’s suburban rail spend takes housing off track

Victoria’s $200 billion suburban rail loop (SRL) will be a horribly expensive white elephant that will get in the way of solving housing...

15.07.2024 10

The New Daily

Alan Kohler