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Global economy
Uncharted territory: The global economy has everyone guessing
We’ve not experienced such a quick and steep economic crash and bounce back, with such massive fiscal stimulus, before. This has made every piece of data a huge event.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Opinion
Wage growth
Morrison needs the gumption to save business (and the unions) from their folly
It would be bad for our economy for us to stay a hermit kingdom. But it’s wrong to imagine that re-opening our borders would immediately strengthen the recovery given low wage growth.
- by Ross Gittins
‘Grandparents need the backyard’: Boomers deepen housing crisis by staying in empty nests
Family homes are in hot demand in Sydney. The problem is that more and more of them are not being used by families.
- by Matt Wade and Tawar Razaghi
‘Remarkable’: Economic experts predict quick bounce from lockdown woes
Lockdown has shuttered much of the state’s economy and left many ordinary people struggling, but it should recover quickly once the clampdown ends.
- by Noel Towell and Shane Wright
Opinion
GDP
Spin and reality collide on Australia’s road to economic recovery
When it comes to talking about the economy, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has an inability to stop himself laying it on too thick.
- by Ross Gittins
Opinion
World markets
It’s China that’s fighting to contain COVID’s fallout now, not the West
Turns out the democratic West did not lose the pandemic after all. The year that China claimed ascendancy may prove to be its annus horribilis.
- by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Opinion
Australian recession
Economy roars back but celebration must be tinged with caution
Hold the champagne and pass the needle, because there is no truly sustainable path back to economic normal until we’re vaccinated.
- by Jessica Irvine
How the world ran out of everything
Experts have warned about the possible consequences of relying on Just in Time manufacturing for decades. The pandemic made those fears reality.
- by Peter S. Goodman and Niraj Chokshi
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Politicians have spent decades dismantling almost the only solution to the pandemic
It surprises me that so few of us have joined the dots on our COVID-19 failures.
- by Ross Gittins
Opinion
Trade wars
Biden unleashes $US250 billion plan to frustrate China
China poked the bear with its ambition to topple the US’s global technological and economic leadership and by detailing the central role the state would play in achieving it.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
Federal budget
Top economists think much further ahead than Morrison and Frydenberg
Australia’s leading economists are pleased to see the government abandon the debt and deficit mantra but are critical of its narrow definition of what constitutes infrastructure.
- by Ross Gittins