Markets
Billionaire Twiggy Forrest to pay millions back to taxpayers
Fortescue’s $900 million hydrogen project in the US and $1 billion plant in Queensland won’t go ahead. Does Trump play...
Articles by Peter Switzer
Markets
Do we need to lower our hopes for rate cuts?
The way the Reserve Bank Governor is talking, with the labour market in good shape, there could be no rush...
Markets
Did Paul Keating get a “fair suck of the ‘tax’ sauce bottle”?
Four Corners investigated the ATO whipping clean a near $1 million tax bill for former Prime Minister Paul Keating. What’s...
Markets
Why August’s rate cuts aren’t a done deal yet
The notes or minutes taken at the Reserve Bank board meeting that shocked the nations’ economists and millions of Australians...
Politics
Trump is a Bitcoin billionaire, and he’s only getting richer
Albo costs the public purse $7m, but it’s chump change in Trumpland where the two-time Commander-in-Chief is netting billions on...
Markets
Did dodgy data cost us the rate cut we richly deserved?
We didn’t get a rate cut on July 8 because the quarterly inflation figure was too high and the lower...
Markets
Rising unemployment makes July 30 crucial for rate cut hopers
When most economists thought a July cut a certainty, one doubter is now calling an August cut a “slam dunk”....
Politics
Will the Albanese government kick Lindsay Fox out of the cash economy?
The RBA, Treasury and ASIC are ganging up to kick the legendary truckie Lindsay Fox and his Armaguard operation out...
Markets
Will these proposed credit card surcharge changes kill jobs and hike prices?
Killing credit card surcharges might save you $60 a year, but they might cost the economy jobs and increase inflation.
Politics
Markets and traders are making a huge gamble on the TACO theory, but what if Trump doesn’t ‘chicken out’
The market has come to expect a certain theatre from Trump. There’s even a term going around: the “taco theory"...