Growth
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.
Justin Pyvis
Justin has a PhD in economics and 20+ years of experience in policy and investment analysis from working at the WA Treasury and AECOM in Perth, and Aletheia Capital in Hong Kong.
Debt
Why Western Australia is squandering generational wealth
And how to fix it for the future.
Inflation
Call it Jimflation
Australia's inflation is home brewed.
Politics
The intergenerational ruse
The coming budget isn't really about helping young Australians.
Energy
Australia should legalise nuclear
Belgium, Germany, Denmark and Japan are reversing course. Yet Australia is still pretending it has a choice.
Debt
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.
Inflation
Australia's coming inflation
The Strait of Hormuz delivered the price shock. Whether it becomes inflation is up to Canberra and Martin Place.
Energy
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.
Debt
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.
Energy
Australia's two fuel crises
How Canberra's response to the first is making the second worse.
Housing
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.
Growth
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.