Cost-of-living increases, inflation, and energy prices affect everyone. And that matters even more when we’re amid a significant generational shift in voting patterns.
Despite signs that inflation is levelling off, Australians could feel the health impacts of high prices for some time.
How exactly does our central bank control the cost of borrowing in the first place?
In less than two years, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has gone from clear choice to fighting for majority support in the polls. What happened?
Well-off investors with multiple properties own a majority of rental homes. They have no excuse not to do the right thing by their tenants.
We hear a lot about the negative impact of rate rises on mortgage repayments, while little is made of the benefits of high interest rates.
Reservists’ refusals to serve in Israel’s defence force represents an unprecedented development, with major implications for the army, Israeli society, and possibly the region.
Although Michele Bullock has been with the bank for four decades, the past two have been in areas remote from interest rate setting, meaning she won’t feel compelled to defend the mistakes of the past.
Oversimplifying challenges and attempting to control uncertainty doesn’t remove it. Instead, it leaves us vulnerable when the unexpected inevitably arrives.
The budget’s back in surplus after 15 years, briefly, and there are measures to ease cost-of-living pressures, but can it tame inflation?
Just as we have the country’s smartest legal minds on the High Court, and our best health practitioners setting vaccine policy, the review wants the best economists to set monetary policy.
Can more and better regulation bring some much-needed sunshine to the crypto winter?
Cities are starting to restore natural systems such as waterways, wetlands and bushland. But restoration on the scale these systems need to function properly calls for a rethink of urban planning.
BNPL is now the second-most common form of consumer credit used by young Australians – except technically it’s not credit.
The first Labor budget in nine years, delivered against a grim economic backdrop, contains few surprises as it charts Australia's way through uncertain times and high-cost hazards.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has delivered a “double-whammy” interest rate rise, and it’s likely there’ll be up to five more to come in 2022.
Some foreign officials promoting central bank digital currencies want to be able to track and limit transactions in real time, raising privacy concerns.
The government used to set interest rates, but no longer does. If the UAP really did try to deliver on an election promise to cap interest rates at 3% for five years, what would the consequences be?
Governor Philip Lowe says it’s “not unreasonable” to expect the cash rate to climb to 2.5%. That’s an extra $600 to service a $500,000 mortgage.
Do you have what it takes to be Australia’s No.2 central banker and heir-apparent to the Reserve Bank of Australia governor?
The Reserve Bank head is optimistic about 2022, in part because COVID has loosened the government’s purse strings.
Not all people in banks are unethical, but banking does attract unethical people.
The mental health of young women is far more sensitive to unemployment than the mental health of young men.
The price tag is massive, and growing rapidly, but there's a radical path forward through monetising government debt.
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