The one line that matters in Australia's Budget
If you want to know whether a government is leaving the next generation better off, watch what it spends, not what it taxes.
Why Western Australia is squandering generational wealth
And how to fix it for the future.
Call it Jimflation
Australia's inflation is home brewed.
The intergenerational ruse
The coming budget isn't really about helping young Australians.
Australia should legalise nuclear
Belgium, Germany, Denmark and Japan are reversing course. Yet Australia is still pretending it has a choice.
Canada's borrowed wealth
Canada might be getting a sovereign wealth fund. Whether Canadians ever get any wealth out of it is a different question.
Australia's coming inflation
The Strait of Hormuz delivered the price shock. Whether it becomes inflation is up to Canberra and Martin Place.
Gas, taxes, and wishful thinking
Comparing Australia's gas tax to Norway's is a masterclass in false equivalence that ignores physical and economic reality.
Low debt buys you optionality
Australia has been burning its fiscal buffers in the good times, leaving it with little in the tank for the next real crisis.
Australia's two fuel crises
How Canberra's response to the first is making the second worse.
The housing wealth illusion
Australia's $12.3 trillion housing stock isn't a pool of misallocated capital, but a mark-to-market valuation of a policy-induced supply constraint.
The economists who cried wolf
Argentina under Milei is a case study in how easily economists' politics can override the lessons of their own discipline.