Some earners will take home less after a tax switch legislated years ago and now supported by both sides of parliament.
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Some foreign officials promoting central bank digital currencies want to be able to track and limit transactions in real time.
Governor Philip Lowe says it is “not unreasonable” to expect the cash rate to climb to 2.5%. That’s an extra $600 to service a $500,000 mortgage.
Why raise rates now, for the first time in more than a decade? If the Reserve Bank isn’t careful, too many more rate hikes like this might help bring on a recession.
The best way to manage the economy is though an array of tools. Interest rates are just one.
The government used to set interest rates but it doesn’t anymore. If UAP really did try to deliver on an election promise to cap interest rates at 3% for five years, what would the consequences be?
Inflation is well outside the Reserve Bank’s target band and higher than it has been for two decades.
Of the news on prices, wages, interest rates and unemployment, only the unemployment update looks set to be positive for the Coalition.
Enormous price rises beyond Australia’s control are cutting our standard of living. Cutting it further by rising rates won’t help.
Do you have what it takes to be Australia’s number two central banker and heir apparent to the governor? Here are the questions you’ll need to prepare to answer.
All eyes now are on the choice of Philip Lowe’s successor – and the possibility that the next RBA governor will, for the first time, be a woman.
Unemployment is far lower than predicted and isn’t setting off the kind of inflation seen in the United States. There’s no telling how much lower it can go.
The Reserve Bank governor is optimistic about 2022 in part because COVID has loosened the government’s purse strings.
The Morrison government could get unemployment down to levels not seen since the 1970s.
The Conversation’s expert panel predicts prices will rise faster than Australians’ pay can keep up in 2022 – and that’s not their only concern about the local economy.
Brainard has been pushing the Fed to consider exposure to climate change in its regulation and analysis of banks. That’s sparked fury from Republican senators – and even a Nobel Prize winner.
Outside of a few superstar firms investing heavily in artificial intelligence, investment by Australian businesses has been shrinking for a decade and isn’t set to bounce back.
The 55 leading economists surveyed by the Economic Society see few signs of Australia aping the US, where inflation has surged to its highest level in 30 years.
Jobs, economic growth, wages growth and even home price growth are likely to look less threatening by the time we are asked to vote.
In its quarterly statement on the economy the Bank is at pains to suggest it won’t be lifting interest rates quickly.
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Program Director, Trade and Investment, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
