After a sensational stock market rally, the US central bank boss has implied that the Yanks will get fewer rate cuts next year. And stock markets didn’t like it.

What are the reasons for the disastrous budget deficit deterioration? Has this delivered a real pickle for future Treasurers and Governments?

It’s been a four-year legal stoush between Qantas groundcrew workers illegally sacked during the dramas of the pandemic. Now the Federal Court has thrown the book at the airline, slapping a $120 million compensation fine on the flying kangaroo!

Treasurer Jim Chalmer may well have been inspired by former UK Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who once advised: “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman”

Is it time to dump big caps? What do you buy? Jun Bei Liu and Rudi Rudi Filapek-Vandyck revel all.

Today the Treasurer names the new team on the board that will set rates. But when will they cut? Do they think the economy’s going gangbusters and no-one’s suffering?

My favourite election for 2024 has been made of the basis of my joy or gloom at the result. In January next year, my first article for 2025, will be my analysis of the US presidential election.

A bitcoin story is coming your way, and this one might encourage you to do something risky or stupid. Be careful. Be very careful.

For those who love or hate the looming US President toting an assortment of tariffs for the significant world economies the Yanks trade with, I bring you potential good news…

While we still don’t know when a rate cut will happen, the ‘tone’ of the RBA’s communications yesterday increases the chances that the first cut could be February.