Can consumers keep driving the recovery?
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The UK inflation rate has leapt to 2.3% – here’s why the government is secretly happy about it.
A triple whammy for wine?
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Bottling up concerns over the price of imports.
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Renting makes financial sense in a number of circumstances; it’s time to move away from the obsession with home ownership.
Stocks have their day.
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The world’s most famous stock index just broke 20,000 for the first time. Here’s why it doesn’t really matter.
Simon Birmingham said the Turnbull government has ‘already had great success in terms of reducing the rate of price growth’.
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The education minister says that under Labor there were child care price spikes of up to 14% over a 12 month period, but under the Coalition those have fallen to “around 6% on average”. Is that right?
Fed Chair Janet Yellen discusses the change in rates.
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The Fed faces a tough choice on how fast to raise rates in 2017, and Donald Trump may find that it may spoil some of his plans.
Up from here?
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Many observers argue the Fed’s wrong to raise rates so soon. Here’s why they’re wrong.
South Africa’s Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas have their work cut out.
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South Africa’s 2016 medium term budget has to rank as one of the most difficult that its finance had to deliver amid many political controversies.
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda has been trying various expansionary monetary policies to get the Japanese economy going.
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The Bank of Japan is trying yet another measure to fight deflation but the economy shows no signs of responding.
Chair Janet Yellen acknowledges: It’s a tough call.
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The Fed left interest rates unchanged but said improving economic data means it will likely lift them later this year. We asked two scholars – and ex-Fed officials – if it was the right call.
Employment growth remains flat, despite hopes for improvement.
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The Australian economy continues to deliver mixed, but on the whole positive, signals.
The world changed dramatically after the 2008 financial crisis and central banks are adjusting.
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The 2008 financial crisis exposed major gaps in central banks’ operations. New features like quantitative easing have since emerged.
When attendees at the annual Jackson Hole symposium get a chance to chat, they might muse about central banks targeting nominal GDP instead of inflation.
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Central banks around the world are struggling with the failure of low (or negative) interest rates to breathe life back into ailing economies.
Some heavy hitters think it’s time the RBA’s role shifted a little.
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Independent Senator Nick Xenophon wants the RBA to focus on economic growth, and he’s not alone.
The RBA has cut rates to try and stimulate inflation and growth.
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Economists are divided on whether the latest interest rate cut to 1.5% was needed, as the RBA tries to boost inflation and growth.
With Australia cutting and the US raising rates the Australian dollar looks likely to fall.
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All economic data is pointing to disappointing global growth.
Incoming RBA governor Philip Lowe
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Incoming Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe will face the challenges of rapid credit and asset prices growth.
Vilification of welfare recipients is a significant barrier to a universal basic income.
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Paying every citizen a basic living wage sounds costly and counter-intuitive to reducing unemployment. But Finland is about to do it and Australia could too.
African countries are facing a huge problem brought on by a sovereign debt crisis.
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At least a dozen sub-Saharan Africa countries have raised debt through sovereign bonds. The chickens are now coming home to roost.
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There are some good reasons why the RBA should retain its flexibility in managing inflation.