How climate-denier Trump may leave China to save the planet

How climate-denier Trump may leave China to save the planet

Xi Jinping will take great delight in showing the world how decadent the US becomes under Donald Trump when it comes to global warming. The planet may be the winner.

  • byRoss Gittins

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Memo to RBA:If wages growth isn’t the problem,then what is?

Memo to RBA:If wages growth isn’t the problem,then what is?

The Reserve Bank of Australia is worried excessive growth in wages is keeping inflation above its target zone. But there’s absolutely no sign of that happening.

  • byRoss Gittins
How can jobs and joblessness both be going up?
Opinion
Employment

How can jobs and joblessness both be going up?

Unemployment in Australia has stayed unusually low,but what do the other signs of our jobs market tell us?

  • byMillie Muroi
Will Trump be disastrous for our economy? I doubt it

Will Trump be disastrous for our economy? I doubt it

While the US prepares for a bout of serious self-harm that will affect the rest of the world economy,Australia is unlikely to be in the firing line.

  • byRoss Gittins
The secret partnerships targeting financial crime

The secret partnerships targeting financial crime

Australians lose $3 billion to financial crime each year,and with major compensation laws looming,law enforcement agencies are ready to go to war.

  • bySarah Danckert andSumeyya Ilanbey
‘Not permitted under the law’:Powell shuts down Trump questions as Fed cuts rates

‘Not permitted under the law’:Powell shuts down Trump questions as Fed cuts rates

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point while chair Jerome Powell addressed concerns about his future when Donald Trump returns to the White House.

  • byChristopher Rugaber
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How we measure recession is wrong. Here’s a better way to do it
Opinion
GDP

How we measure recession is wrong. Here’s a better way to do it

GDP is a flawed measure of the health of an economy at the best of times,and it’s time we paid attention to a different statistic.

  • byMillie Muroi
You can blame Albanese for all our woes ... except the biggest one

You can blame Albanese for all our woes ... except the biggest one

The PM and his people have always known what needed doing. It’s just that,somewhere along the line,he seems to have lost his bottle.

  • byRoss Gittins
We owe more than we realise to our best econocrats
Opinion
Budget

We owe more than we realise to our best econocrats

Public servants such as former NSW Treasury secretary Percy Allan,who died last month,play a vital role in advancing voters’ interests behind the scenes.

  • byRoss Gittins
How America’s rich and powerful let Donald Trump get away with it

How America’s rich and powerful let Donald Trump get away with it

The corporate world has either fallen silent or quietly “normalised” Donald Trump and it has unravelled the American democracy.

  • byAmbrose Evans-Pritchard
Finding it hard to stomach higher prices? Something seedy is going on

Finding it hard to stomach higher prices? Something seedy is going on

It’s not just supermarkets that are likely to be pushing prices higher. Some of us are getting squeezed from more angles than one.

  • byMillie Muroi