Earlier this month, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) released an analysis purporting to show how changes in the volume ...

With the release of the latest inflation data from the ABS came relief that a rate rise at the August RBA meeting was now largely off the table. The RBA’s May forecasts in their latest Statement on ...

Australia’s dwelling construction is already running well behind the Albanese government’s 1.2 million five-year target, as set out in the National Housing Accord. The target requires a construction ...

Houthis hit another Saudi oil tanker, making it three in as many days. Demands toll for Bab al-Mandab. Saudi bombed Iranian militia in Iraq. Iran attacked US forces in Jordan (first time it has struck ...

On Wednesday, I presented expert evidence to the Senate Select Committee on Productivity in Australia. Below is my opening statement. In February 2023, former Labor Home Affairs minister, Clare O’Neil ...

Goldman is getting dovish after yesterday’s softer-than-expected CPI. It notes that the quarterly trimmed mean, the RBA’s preferred indicator of underlying inflation, increased by 0.81% quarter over ...

I’ve often noted that the market likes to test a new Fed chairman with some hawkish expectations. Today, Kevin Warsh failed, delivering for Trump instead. The Committee decided to maintain the target ...

For years, I watched in despair as my fellow Victorians displayed acute Stockholm Syndrome regarding the state Labor government. It seemed that no matter what the state Labor government did or how ...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released the all-important Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the month/quarter of June, which rose by 3.8% in the 12 months to June 2026, driven by housing, ...

Trade Minister Don Farrell says the US government’s decision to impose a new tariff on imports from Australia is “completely unjustified” and a breach of the free-trade agreement between the two ...

The problem with the anti-renewable energy argument is that it is a weaving, bobbing, amorphous line of thinking that changes when you try to pin it down. I’ve tried to do all in one arguments, but I ...

MB’s David Llewellyn-Smith (DLS) and Nucleus Wealth’s Damien Klassen disagree with me on energy policy. MB exists to debate such issues in good faith and allow readers to form their own views. We all ...