If your wallet is empty, you're part of the new majority
We're using credit cards more than cash.
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Peter Martin
Peter Martin is the Economics Editor for The Age.
That sucking sound is Australians being robbed of their own gas
How a nation awash with gas ran dry in the middle of a global gas glut.
The 'socialist' idea that could revolutionise housing
Letting someone else own a share of your house means you're not putting all your eggs in one basket.
Hidden figures. Women manage money better
Women get the better of men when it comes to money.
The simple fix to make high-earning investors pay $240m more tax
High earners are negatively gearing their way out of the Medicare levy.
Forget what you've heard about coal. Electricity prices are going up regardless
I'll give it to you cold. Electricity prices are going up.
What if the nerds are reading Trump right?
For economics nerds, there's no event more exciting than the annual meeting of the American Economic Association. Over three days in January, this year in Chicago, more than 13,000 of the very brightest cram into the one hotel to check out jobs, check out each other and swap the very latest research.
Why have our ministers got it in for the unemployed?
Using the disabled as a human shield to defend cuts to others is as dumb as it gets. Propagating fake news is worse.
There's a way out of our economic problems, it's not embracing Cory
So keen has Malcolm Turnbull become to appease his party's right wing that he is actually governing badly.
NAPLAN prepares us for neither the real world nor Trump
They key to convincing people appears to be repetition – the more often something is said, the more likely it is to be regarded as true.
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