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Back to the seventies
29 Oct 2026The only thing News Corp's buy-local crusade will manufacture is a tariff.
Hundreds of millions of vibes
26 Oct 2026Richard Denniss is predicting mass unemployment without a model to support it.
Tech bros make poor economists
22 Oct 2026Anthropic staff saw what AI did inside one company, extrapolated it to the whole economy, and called it macroeconomics. It isn't.
Government by text message
19 Oct 2026One week, three wins for special-interests, three losses for taxpayers.
Higher for longer
15 Oct 2026A 4.6% cash rate doesn't mean money is tight.
Banning the card surcharge didn't remove the cost
12 Oct 2026How Albo made your morning coffee more expensive.
Price controls are never the answer
8 Oct 2026Bad ideas never die, and this week two of them came back at once.
Safety is the new censorship
6 Oct 2026The Albanese government is using unproven harms to justify censorship powers it doesn't need.
Responsible economic management
2 Oct 2026If this is as good as it gets, I'd hate to see what Chalmers thinks irresponsible economic management looks like.
Medicare wasn't hacked
29 Sept 2026The 'hack' that wasn't is already being used to sell AI regulation.