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Negative gearing plus inadequate supply plus low wage growth equals financial distress.
Money is pouring into exchange traded funds, but making a bitcoin one isn’t necessarily a good idea.
While Apple Pay may have won the battle against some of Australia’s banks, it may lose the war against the providers of digital wallets, such as Tencent and Alibaba.
There’s good news from manufacturers around the world, and this should feed into economic growth.
Online ratings and reviews may seem like a good way to see what other consumers think of a product but they can be to simplistic and misleading, research shows.
Housing has become integral to our welfare system, so even governments can’t afford for prices to decline.
A decline in union membership has left a void to be filled by a more chaotic movement - alt-unionism.
Estimates released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics suggest that the number of direct full-time equivalent jobs in renewable energy activities has continued to fall from its 2011-12 peak.
The company tax cut may signal to the world that Australia wants to be competitive on corporate tax, but it won’t make much of a difference to our largest businesses and multinationals.
Economists struggle to agree on when and where housing bubbles occur, but bubbles all have similar characterisitics.
Employer groups are calling for a cut in real wages for low paid workers, but this would only exacerbate current problems.
The charge for retailing electricity in Australia compares poorly other deregulated markets in Europe
Yes, Brexit is really happening, and what comes next could determine whether we see another global financial crisis.
After a lot of hype, it looks like Amazon will finally come to Australian shores. But it won’t be the end of Aussie retail.
Many of the claims about the impact of the company tax are overblown, including the government’s estimation of how much it would cost.
Economic arguments against immigration often rest on simplistic arguments of supply and demand. The data show immigration has a negligible effect on wages, employment or hours worked.
Declining interest rates has made housing more affordable over the past thirty years, but it has also increased the risk for homebuyers.
The insistence by the Fair Work Commission that the government make a submission on penalty rates was not about their position, but a call on the government to take some of the responsibility itself.
A border adjustment tax would raise government revenue and boost jobs in export-driven industries, which tend to concentrate in the embattled manufacturing sector.
The Economics Society of Australia (ESA) Monash Forum polled economists on whether capital gains tax deductions for housing investment should be removed.
Australia’s central bank is still trying to walk a delicate tightrope.
We now value the house as a wealth builder, not just a place to live in and raise a family. The result is a distorted investment market that makes home ownership and rental unaffordable.
Analysis shows that rising inequality over the past 20 years makes it harder to increase taxes and makes citizens less willing to pay them.
Investors will soon be able to invest A$10,000 in a start-up through a crowdfunding platform. But parts of the law are still too restrictive.