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Richard HoldenThe Conversation |
The default idea that new regulation should aim at reducing the market shares of tech companies is old economy thinking.
The online age may make it easier for companies to predict what we’re willing to pay. But it also makes it easier for us to share stories of nasty...
We need to be sure that on valuations, trustees are not conducting some tick-a-box exercise and playing with the retirement savings of members.
Good strategy involves knowing the game, including your opponents, and committing to a strategy.
The community independents are right that this legislation is too important to be rushed through parliament in the final two sitting weeks.
It wasn’t a good look for Australia to be on the world stage at last month’s IMF meetings as a noted holdout on a crucial international agreement.
The hard truth for Labor is that inflation is kryptonite for centre-left governments, and Anthony Albanese’s record on prices is very similar to Joe...
Rising demand for investment capital to fund things like the green revolution will keep the price of money higher than it was.
Year 12 students applying for university this year will be allocated to courses based on a famous algorithm called “deferred acceptance”.
The 2024 gong in economic sciences went to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson. Their studies have vital lessons for today’s...
Buy stocks when prices are low compared to dividends, and sell them when prices are high compared to dividends. Simple, right? But there’s always...
For all the focus on the illegal activities of the CFMEU, it’s their legal activities that have played a starring role in our housing affordability...
The damage that international student caps would do to our sovereign research capability can be addressed by fully funding research overheads.
One way to think about part of the profits that banks make is that it’s the cost of providing trust. But first you need to understand how...
The governor and deputy governor’s dangerous signals of non-independence threaten the secret sauce of central banking.
Government contributions will again increase demand without boosting supply. No wonder fees keep rising.
Sentences which begin “Studies show...” are often followed by a description of a correlation interpreted as if it were a causal relationship -...
The RBA has squibbed again this month. With long-run credibility on the line, it needs to focus on getting inflation inside the target band
Antiquated over-reliance on income taxes means that if you do manage to succeed, Australia then taxes that success heavily.
Trump’s first term tariffs did not crater the US or world economies. The same cannot be said for his far more ambitious plans the second time...
Apparently the Reserve Bank thinks raising rates would trigger a technical recession, so don’t expect our inflation-driven cost-of-living crisis to...
Interest rates are going to have to stay (or go) higher for longer, and governments are going to have to stop expanding their spending so rapidly.
The budget is just more hard proof that Australia has not elected a government driven by policy since Kevin Rudd’s Labor in 2007.
The Albanese government took power promising to increase wages. It was a risky gamble that is not paying off.
From banks to supermarkets to AUKUS, governments use the wrong tools to get the job done.
The “new neutral” medium-term interest rate will make global competition for capital far more intense. The country needs to get ready for that.
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...
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.
The $100 billion carbon tax proposal would penalise Australians, deter greener energy switches in Asia, and would be impossible to implement.
Gone are the days of Alan Greenspan-like, inscrutable “Fedspeak”. The straight-talking governor’s first media conference was all killa no filla.
This is the wrong policy done in the wrong way, driven by politics and the arbitrary structuring of the budget.
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,...