The Reserve Bank of Australia really does want Aussies poorerBy Michael Pascoe | September 11, 2024As evidence of a slowing Australian economy mounts, Governor Michele Bullock quietly told journalists the RBA ...
Crisis, what (housing) crisis? Dutton to scrap 30,000 homes.By Michael Pascoe | August 28, 2024If there was any doubt the Liberal Party has nothing but disdain for social and affordable housing, it was removed ...
Developers Rule: affordable housing turns out to be unaffordable.By Michael Pascoe | August 21, 2024The much-promoted affordable housing centrepiece of the Minns Government’s density push has failed before it ...
The Reserve Bank fibs and has no idea about wages causing inflationBy Michael Pascoe | August 14, 2024Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock last week set out to kill expectations of an interest rate cut. She ...
No rainbow. Government’s housing rhetoric laid bare by RBA decisionBy Michael Pascoe | August 6, 2024As expected, the RBA kept the base interest rate unchanged at 4.35% today. But while interest rate chatter gets ...
Trump wins the debate. Is this the end of the American Century?By Michael Pascoe | June 29, 2024Joe Biden blew Friday’s presidential debate, leaving the Democratic Party despairing. November 5 now looms as the ...
Poll shocker: is Albanese’s Labor paying the price of running scared?By Michael Pascoe | June 17, 2024Two polls, same message. Labor is sliding, Dutton is rising. Is the Albanese Government paying the price for only ...
Reserve Bank inflation backflip as Bullock disses Chalmer’s CPI reductionBy Michael Pascoe | June 5, 2024RBA Governor Michele Bullock was at Senate Estimates this morning, appearing to contradict her own Chief ...
Rate cuts coming? RBA buys Labor’s Budget massage for inflationBy Michael Pascoe | May 31, 2024Treasurer Jim Chalmers' 'magic wand' to get inflation down in the Budget is on track following RBA testimony to ...
Dutton goes the full Trump, with fake news and false factsBy Michael Pascoe | May 20, 2024Opposition leader Peter Dutton's budget reply speech was an exercise in pure Trumpism. Unconcerned with truth, ...
Jim Chalmers’ Budget face saver for the RBA on inflation – voters tooBy Michael Pascoe | May 12, 2024Inflation and cost of living are critical for Treasurer Jim Chalmers when he hands down the Federal Budget on ...
MPs’ ‘inexcusable’ behaviour is routinely excused in The Age of No ResponsibilityBy Michael Pascoe | August 27, 2020We live in a time when politicians saying “the buck stops here” only applies when there is not a problem, writes ...