Tax
A tax on capital is a tax on wages
Australia's capital per worker hasn't grown in a decade, yet Labor's response is to tax it harder.
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.
Weekly
Nth-best
Treasury shows its work; The term premium returns... or does it; and Time to dust off your paper air-plane skills.
Labour
Is there a crisis facing men?
The data on young men is genuinely mixed. You wouldn't know it from the commentary.
Debt
Why markets didn't react to Australia's budget
The most controversial budget since 1993, and the bond market didn't bat an eye.
Sport
Chiefs of the salary cap
How Australian taxpayers are buying PNG an NRL premiership.
Politics
Did Labor just jump the shark?
The next Australian election just went from a sure thing to wide open.
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.
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.