Them’s the bucks ... non-graduate taxpayers will be among the masses giving this $16 billion tax break to higher-paid graduates.

Why Albanese’s HECS gift is a reverse-Robin Hood

If we give a $16 billion tax break to people on higher incomes who went to university,then we’ll have to get that pound of flesh from the people who didn’t.

  • Chris Richardson

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We are now in a vaudeville economy where bad news is good news

There’s a good chance that there’s enough bad news around on family finances that the government handouts won’t push up interest rates.

  • Chris Richardson
The NDIS program is one of the fastest growing areas of government spending.

Albanese’s big funding problem has been diagnosed but not yet cured

The government says it will deliver $74 billion in savings from NDIS spending across a decade. But it’s not yet apparent how this will be done.

  • Chris Richardson
Michele Bullock at the RBA’s news conference on Tuesday.

I hope the Easter bunny was good to you,because chances are the Reserve Bank won’t be

The ups and downs of interest rates mean more to Australian families than they do to virtually anyone else on the planet.

  • Chris Richardson
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Sydney on Wednesday.

The PM wants ideas to ease the cost-of-living squeeze. Here’s one...

Halving import taxes might help the government achieve its aim of easing pressure from the cost of living without also pushing up inflation.

  • Chris Richardson
Price pressures are higher on essential goods,inlcuding beef,vegetables and toilet paper.

Struggling with rising prices? Time to remember why you hate economists

Although the politics of “doing something” to help Australians deal with rising prices are good,the economics are bad. Here’s why.

  • Chris Richardson
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Despite 10 billion reasons to hate the banks,it’s not that simple

In these times of ‘greedflation’,businesses like the CBA have too much power to push up prices. But wages growth will outpace prices in the years ahead. You can bank on it.

  • Chris Richardson

Negative gearing isn’t the problem – it’s NIMBYs like me

This nation has been strangling the future of younger Australians for decades. But the wheel is finally starting to turn.

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Surprise! We’ve borrowed too much for unexpected rate hikes

The decisions of the RBA have never mattered as much to Australian families and businesses as they do today,and surprises – like Tuesday’s rate hike – are most unwelcome.

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The best house price forecast is the latest John Wick film

Despite being shot,stabbed and punched,house prices are already rising again. In fact,they’ve been rising since early February.

  • Chris Richardson