Rates on hold amid increasing concern about house prices

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The Reserve Bank has held the cash rate steady amid growing pressure to lift rates to contain soaring home prices.

How the Senate saved the government from itself

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Why do companies invest here? We mightn't have needed to cut that company tax much anyway.

How Turnbull can kill stamp duty and produce a budget to remember

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There's still time to craft a budget that actually does something.

Value capture isn't all it's cracked up to be - Grattan Institute

"Value-capture", promoted by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as a way of getting the private sector to stump up for government infrastructure has almost never lived up to its promise, a new analysis by the Grattan Institute finds.

If your wallet is empty, you're part of the new majority

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We're using credit cards more than cash.

Lift GST, says OECD in dismal report card

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has castigated Australia for inadequate progress on tax, Indigenous affairs and support for business in a report card to be presented to finance ministers from the group of 20 leading industrial nations in Germany on Saturday.

Consumer confidence in housing at lowest level in 40 years

Consumer confidence in the Australian housing market has collapsed to its lowest level in 27 years, with the proportion of Australians believing real estate was the wisest place to put savings falling to below 12 per cent, the lowest level since 1974.

That sucking sound is Australians being robbed of their own gas

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How a nation awash with gas ran dry in the middle of a global gas glut.

RBA worried about collapse in apartment prices

The Reserve Bank is considering tighter bank lending standards amid concern about how the financial system would handle a collapse in housing prices.