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Michael Stutchbury

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The inflation and immigration lessons of Trump

Donald Trump’s question to voters - “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” - has cut across gender and racial divisions, writes...

07.11.2024 10

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Michael Stutchbury

Why the RBA has a massive public education job to do

Despite the RBA’s increased messaging, most people still don’t understand why inflation broke out in the first place.

18.10.2024 10

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Michael Stutchbury

RBA’s Bullock now has a bigger megaphone. But what should she say?

It’s possible the inflation problem is not about overheated demand, but rather the supply bottlenecks caused by lagging productivity.

27.09.2024 8

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Michael Stutchbury

Corporate Australia can’t let Albanese brush reform under the carpet

Business needs to get more on the front foot in calling out the policy and political class failure that most media coverage has normalised.

20.09.2024 9

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Michael Stutchbury

Chalmers dumps his fiscal profligacy onto the RBA

The government has its foot on the spending pedal while the Reserve Bank tries standing on the brakes. There is no sign of the co-ordination that has...

13.09.2024 5

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Michael Stutchbury

Treasurer v the RBA: Why Chalmers and Bullock are both right

Jim Chalmers says the economy is getting smashed by high rates, but it’s still running too hot for the RBA. The answer is simple: productivity.

04.09.2024 8

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Michael Stutchbury

Why Paul Keating is furious with Jim Chalmers

For the first time, the former Labor leader is slamming the Albanese government on economics rather than AUKUS. It’s all about the politics of...

30.08.2024 10

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Michael Stutchbury

Professors and populists all get inflation wrong

Despite what a Nobel prizewinner and Jacqui Lambie might think, growth is the only serious answer to inflation.

16.08.2024 7

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Michael Stutchbury

Can our prosperity survive a year of political madness?

Public policy is now swinging in the populist wind. And it’s hard to imagine the election of a government that can rationally take back control of...

09.08.2024 8

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Michael Stutchbury

The three strategies that saved the Financial Review

It had a competitive advantage of deep engagement with the Australian business community. But that was just the starting point, writes outgoing...

25.07.2024 30

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Michael Stutchbury

RBA’s new Englishman tells Aussies: you’ve forgotten how rich you are

If Australians don’t appreciate their fortune, as Andrew Hauser correctly points out, they may not be well placed to preserve it, writes Michael...

01.07.2024 10

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Michael Stutchbury

AFR will not walk away from WA

Political and business leaders in Western Australia say privately that Kerry Stokes has an unhealthy degree of media power in the state.

24.05.2024 10

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Michael Stutchbury

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