One issue matters more to top economists than any other this election: climate change
Offered a menu of issues to choose from as the most important in the May 21 election, Australia’s top economists have overwhelmingly zeroed in on one.
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The super giveaway that gives more to the already-wealthy, tax-free
One of the strangest, certainly one of the hardest to justify, measures in last week’s budget was called “supporting retirees”.
A better title would have been “supercharging the wealth of those retirees who already have more than enough to live on”.
Budget 2022: Frydenberg spent big, but (on the whole) responsibly
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Cut emissions, not petrol tax. The budget economists want
Overwhelmingly, Australia’s top economists would rather the budget funds measures to cut carbon emissions than cuts income tax or company tax.
They are also dead against rumoured cuts to petrol tax and the tax on beer.
Why Australia’s Reserve Bank won’t hike interest rates just yet
The biggest question relating to the management of the economy right now has nothing to do with next week’s budget. It has everything to do with the Reserve Bank and the board meetings that will follow it.
It’s hard to find a case for a cut in petrol tax – there are other things the budget can do
Cutting petrol tax to bring down the cost of living used to be the political version of a joke. Failed US presidential candidates John McCain and Hillary Clinton both tried it in 2008.
Putin’s biggest mistake? Trusting the Western financial system
The West is arraying financial weapons never deployed before against a country of Russia’s size, forsaking some of the principles that have defined it.
This pointless $1,080 tax break should have ended years ago – but has become hard to stop
We are about to find out whether we’ll lose a tax break worth up to $1,080 a year.
Australia cut unemployment faster than predicted – why stop now?
If you told someone a year ago unemployment was about to dive below 5%, to just above 4%, they wouldn’t have believed you.