Inflation
Australia needs to cough up its ‘regulatory hairballs’, declares PC boss
For the next three days, leaders will look at ways to lift living standards. The Productivity Commission says they should start with one area of reform.
- Shane Wright
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- Analysis
- Analysis
Fewer takeaways, dearer eggs: How inflation hits your hip pocket
The inflation rate might be down, but the cost of living is still our biggest worry, and some prices have risen by 50 per cent in a few years, data reveals.
- Matt Wade
- Opinion
- Trump's America
The door is open for Trump to create more chaos
The clock is ticking as Donald Trump gets set to make two key appointments that pose a serious risk to America’s economy.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
- Opinion
- OPEC
Trump dealt a blow as the world is flooded with oil
The OPEC+ oil cartel is trying to take back control of the market with a strategy that might be self-destructive. It also undermines a key plank of Donald Trump’s economic strategy.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
- Opinion
- Trump's America
Welcome to Donald Trump’s dystopian world
There’s a quote in George Orwell’s 1984 that seems appropriate after Trump’s shocking move to fire the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics after she produced numbers he didn’t like.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
- Opinion
- Opinion
If inflation is under control, why does your budget feel so stretched?
The numbers are pointing to the rate of price rises sitting at where the Reserve Bank wants it, but that doesn’t mean we get to see the benefits straight away.
- Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
- Opinion
- Federal Reserve
The man who isn’t listening to Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ story
Donald Trump is at boiling point as Fed chief Jerome Powell again ignores the president’s ferocious campaign for lower interest rates. But there was dissension on the board.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
- Analysis
- Interest rates
Inflation hits four-year low – giving RBA no choice but to cut rates
The Reserve Bank was split on its decision to hold rates earlier this month. In two weeks, it will have no choice but to cut.
- Shane Wright and Millie Muroi
International student surge probably contributed to post-pandemic inflation: RBA
International students spend twice as much as Australian residents and work fewer hours on average, but they were just one of many factors that fuelled inflation.
- Millie Muroi
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- Interest rates
Australia to finally get monthly insight into inflation pressures
From November, Australia will join the global norm and produce full monthly inflation reports to help guide the RBA
- Shane Wright