Democracy seems futile, up against Huge Australia. Not even “extraordinary developments” are likely to budge this Albo-tross.

Blow me down with a feather. Treasurer Jim ” Chicken” Chalmers has snuffed out property tax reform (on a Friday afternoon to ...

Justin Fabo at Antipodean Macro has compiled data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showing that the ...

TSLombard with the note. Here we go again. The US election has a binary outcome for China macro and markets. While both ...

The Australian Energy Regulator says the nation’s coal-fired powers stations are too decrepit to keep running until nuclear ...

Much has been written about how Australia’s labour market and economy are being underpinned by record government spending, ...

They’re all liars. Dr Chalmers will tell finance ministers that under the Albanese government, inflation has halved. “We’ve ...

Last weekend, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan chose the wealthy suburb of Brighton to launch her plan to take planning ...

The Market Ear on stocks. Fast buying Coming into this week, HFs have net bought US equities at the fastest pace YTD. GS PB ...

Mad Dalian likewise: Steel margins have collapsed again, most notably for flat: As mills ramped output into the stimulus ...

Earlier this year, former federal Treasury official Stephen Anthony warned that Victoria may ultimately require a federal “bailout” amid soaring state debt, which hit $27,729 per person in 2023-24.

North Asia enjoyed a relief rally: As did the crap complex of commods, miners and EM: But not junk, which is a worry for risk ...