Master Builders Australia (MBA) has used a submission to the Productivity Commission to argue that the federal government ...

Australia’s unemployment rate is currently 4.1%, a historically low figure. The low unemployment rate has been driven by the ...

Overnight saw the Federal Reserve hold fire in their latest FOMC meeting although the reasons were more domestic than foreign macro problems as the Trump regimes tariff tirades are really starting to ...

Some nice new charts from IEEFA on the great gas gouge. It’s China that’s sucking the life out of the East Coast economy. Of ...

If there is one thing that MAGA hates, it’s neocons. Those fanciful folk who thought they could lead the world to US nirvana ...

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has slashed the official cash rate by 2.25%, which has lowered mortgage rates by around 2% ...

The Market Ear on rising stress. You know things are stressed in geopolitics… …when the latest VIX pop looks tiny compared to ...

Harry Ottley, economist at CBA, has written an excellent report on the Q1 2025 Labour Account from the Australian Bureau of ...

DXY is stirring as Trump turns neocon. AUD slumped on WWIII. Lead boots are rock solid. Oil is still not overly worried.

Westpac’s latest consumer sentiment survey suggested that Australians have turned bullish on housing. As illustrated below by ...

The past month has exposed the fallacy of the Albanese government’s target to build 1.2 million homes over five years, which ...

Australia’s manufacturing sector hit a record low share of GDP in the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) national ...