Peter Martin is the Economics Editor for The Age.
President Donald Trump will declare economic war on our biggest customer, wipe unprecedented amounts off global stock markets, usher in extraordinary financial instability, and risk turning the the world's biggest economy into a basket case by pushing its national debt past 100 per cent of GDP.
There's another massive deal you've never heard of.
What if we were on the cusp of the biggest advance in productivity in centuries and didn't recognise it?
What matters for a tolerable retirement (far more than superannuation) is owning the home in which you live.
There is much, much more to a good life than jobs and growth, and the head of the treasury ought to know it.
Low inflation has 'tilted' our mortgages.
A good chunk of Scott Morrison's budget problems could have vanished, just as they vanished for Peter Costello during mining boom at the start of the century.
Australia's bank chiefs could be forgiven for thinking they've survived the worst, says Peter Martin.
If the Reserve Bank's official cash rate is 1.5 per cent and you can borrow for a home at 4.4 per cent, why are credit rates as high as 21 per cent?
You'd be forgiven for thinking that money matters to everyone except those who don't have it.
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