Stephen Bartholomeusz
Stephen Bartholomeusz is one of Australia’s most respected business journalists. He was most recently co-founder and associate editor of the Business Spectator website and an associate editor and senior columnist at The Australian.
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
The Fed chief’s wise words are wasted on Trump
Jerome Powell’s highly nuanced speech highlighted the Trump-inspired uncertainties in the US economy even as Trump ramped up his efforts to gain control of the US central bank. Trump doesn’t do nuance.
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- 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
- AI
The multitrillion-dollar ‘bubble’ that could sink markets
Unimaginable sums of money are being sunk into AI by some of the world’s most valuable companies. Is this a re-run of the 1990s dot-com and tech bubbles?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
- Opinion
- AI
The world’s superpowers turn up the heat in a dangerous battle
The US, China and European Union are pursuing radically different approaches in their scramble to rule the world of AI. That could exacerbate the risks in an inherently risky technology.
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- Opinion
- Mergers & acquisitions
Trump will be furious as China gatecrashes $35 billion party
Trump had hailed a deal involving a Hong Kong billionaire as a personal triumph and a win for America. China has just muscled its way into it.
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- Opinion
- Trade wars
Trump’s latest clumsy deal has unintended consequences
The threat of a full-scale trans-Atlantic trade war has been averted with a deal between the US and EU, but there is some confusion over just what has been agreed to.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
- Opinion
- Trade wars
Lost in translation: Trump doesn’t seem to understand the ‘massive’ deal he just made
Donald Trump says there has never been anything like the trade deal just struck with Japan. He’s probably right, but not in the way he thinks.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz