In a speech today (ahead of next Tuesday’s Budget), the PM will tell us how manufacturing will be the platform for hundreds of thousands of jobs.

A new virus is spreading through the Canberra corridors of power and it’s called the normally uncommon common sense.

Despite polls indicating Joe Biden is a shoo-in to become the 46th President of the USA, expert scientific analysis suggests President Trump has a 90% chance of being reelected.

Responsible lending will be given the boot, if Josh has his way. Does that mean we can look forward to irresponsible lending?

Former Prime Minister Keating (the Treasurer most responsible for our previous recession in 1991) has ripped into the high priests of our Reserve Bank for being too slow and indolent dealing with the Coronavirus crash.

Who will Trump nominate to replace US Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg? And how will this impact his chances for the election?

In the vein of thinking outside the square, I’d love to see the Treasurer bring back the “long lunch”, which was killed off in 1985 by Paul Keating’s fringe benefit tax.

The Tasmanian Government has a prominent economist dancing with the devil, exhuming death taxes and pushing payroll tax onto more small businesses. And it’s thought this could be a model for the rest of the country?

The ACT election and the New Zealand election will both be held on 17 October. And then there’s Queensland and the USA. Here are my predictions.

We need to get off our butts and think like we’ve never thought before about ways to get out of this Coronavirus economic crisis. And here are some opening thoughts and ideas.

When I helped create the Talking Business programme on Qantas years ago, I interviewed one of the smartest people I’ve ever encountered – Edward de Bono. Our leaders could do well to implement his ‘think outside the square’ mantra.

To save our economy from a worse-than-expected recession, business wants tax cuts asap. But maybe we also need small businesses to be paid on time and less fighting with China?