Bold economic ideas are flowing ahead of next month’s roundtable convened by the Albanese government, aimed at boosting Australia’s productivity and economy, and repairing the budget. Among the biggest ideas to emerge is: should Australia resurrect its carbon price?

With job growth falling well short of expectations and prior months revised sharply lower, Trump didn’t wait long to act—firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics via social media. Now all eyes are on whether Powell will cave to pressure and cut interest rates.

Taxes on grog is a hip pocket issue and won’t rock inflation or rate cuts. So let me give you the run down on this crazy US jobs report.

Productivity growth is a key driver of improvements in living standards. But in Australia over the last decade, output per hour worked grew by less than a quarter of its 60-year average. We urgently need to turn this around.

OpenAI’s AI Economic Blueprint for Australia makes bold projections about the new technology’s impact on the country’s economy but these claims warrant careful scrutiny, particularly given the company’s clear commercial interests in shaping Australian regulation.

What’s the current lie of the land when it comes to the likely tariff we’ll cop? And how will our government, central bank and stock market react?

In this week’s Boom Doom Zoom, Paul Rickard and Peter Switzer unpack everything rattling and rallying markets — from Trump’s copper tariffs and Fed rate signals to some wild reporting season swings.

The nations borrowers were praying for a good inflation number yesterday. They got it, so there should be no excuses for the RBA to deny a rate cut on August 12.

If you're like me and sitting on a more than a few very unattractive lithium equities, this one deserves your attention: the Rio Tinto boss just gave his assessment of when the lithium price might rise again.