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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...
Articles by Peter Switzer
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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...
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How former PM Paul Keating made Mark Bouris rich and why that story matters for your mortgage right now
Mark Bouris and I compared notes yesterday on the housing slump, the odds of a fourth rate rise this year,...
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Taxed to the bone: Australia’s 61% post-Covid tax blowout
Covid may be old news, but the tax bill it left behind is very much alive and growing. New figures...
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Pauline Hanson’s super plan isn’t the villain Jim Chalmers says it is
Pauline Hanson has both major parties rattled, and for once it's not for the usual reasons. Her plan to let...
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Trump, the Fed and a housing slump: why September has me on edge
Donald Trump is leaning on the Fed, spring auctions are slumping, and history’s so-called September Effect looms over Wall Street....