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Could peace break the RBA’s rate rise reign of terror?
Rate rises don’t have to be inevitable, and a handful of unlikely global events could be about to do the...
Articles by Peter Switzer
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Dotcom deja vu: should we really be scared of this market?
Every long bull market eventually meets its doubters, and right now the sceptics are reaching all the way back to...
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2065: A Productivity Odyssey. Chalmers puts his faith in the AI machine.
Jim Chalmers is pinning 40 years of Budget arithmetic on artificial intelligence lifting productivity, yet the same forecast that helps...
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How the Budget’s property crackdown just handed Chalmers’ super mates a win
While Treasurer Chalmers might not have intended it, his Budget’s crackdown on negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount...
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Could a wave of builder collapses be enough to stop the RBA hiking rates?
A record run of construction company failures is colliding with an RBA board under pressure to raise rates again. Something...
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Is Chalmers cooking the productivity books or has he found the secret sauce?
Treasurer Chalmers has been accused of fiddling the numbers ahead of next week’s Intergenerational Report. But there’s a twist: his...
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Wake up, politicians! How can you sleep while our businesses are burning?
While Australia burns $4 million per job trying to save a single steelworks, Donald Trump has found a much cheaper...
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Albo and Jim, stop bashing our business builders
From Kerry Packer to Bevan Slattery, this country owes its jobs, wealth and cultural life to entrepreneurs willing to take...
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Could the RBA send Sydney house prices down 16% in one year?
Higher clearance rates might sound like good news for the property market, but with the RBA still on the front...
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He’s not the Messiah. He’s a very naughty boy. Rents backfire on Chalmers.
Housing experts have crunched the numbers on Chalmers’ Budget changes, and the results make an uncomfortable case that our Treasurer’s...