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Alan KohlerThe Australian |
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...
-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...
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...
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;...
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...
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...
The Victorian government’s blizzard of housing announcements this month, mainly directed at building a lot of high-rise apartments in 50 close-in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
One of the most important causes of Australia’s housing affordability crisis is excess immigration over many years, and the problem with...
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...
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...
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”, said Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, and so it was last week,...
Victoria’s $200 billion suburban rail loop (SRL) will be a horribly expensive white elephant that will get in the way of solving housing...