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BUDGET LEAK: Dr Jim will help make 1.2 million homes
What are we to hear from Dr Jim Chalmers next Tuesday about his plans to get more homes built?
Articles by Peter Switzer
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What the RBA should do today
Here’s evidence that shows that the RBA should wait a few months before raising or cutting rates. This is my...
Markets
Will this HECS debt fairness force rates up?
Treasurer Jim is about to unveil a favour for three million Australians with HECS debts. What voter wouldn’t like a...
Politics
Powerful Treasurer handouts coming but will they push up inflation?
Around this time of year, we have upcoming budget leaks and some currently surfacing could have economic consequences and political...
Markets
Do we need to help the RBA create a recession?
A finance academic has suggested that Australians help the Reserve Bank to beat inflation to reduce interest rates by cutting...
Politics
Treasurer Chalmers wants foreign money but not from every country
Treasurer Jim Chalmers will outline this filtering of foreign investors today as a support piece to the government’s Future Made...
Markets
SUSSAN economics: job losses go with rate cuts. But how many and when?
Over the next three months, we need to see that the 13 rate rises are hurting the economy enough for...
Politics
Will unions and rising interest rates crush Albo’s re-election plans?
Is Labor giving into the anti-competitive actions of unions that hurt productivity, push up costs and interest rates, and kill...
Markets
Has this inflation number set us up for multiple rate rises!
For anyone wanting a rate cut, the March quarter CPI number wasn’t good. Some economists have ruled out any cut...
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Today’s a taxing day for rate worriers
Pressure’s on. Will today’s inflation news bring us closer or push us further away from our first rate cut?