Greg Jericho

Soaring repayments are a massive impost on the ability of most to afford a loan. It’s no wonder people are shopping around like never before

Australians are already getting hit by higher costs for necessities, reducing their ability to save and spend money on non-essential goods and services

A rise would only add to the cost of necessities without reducing inflation, hitting households already struggling with a 70% increase in mortgage costs

If we are ever to recover our lost purchasing power, we need plenty more wages rises above inflation

Household disposable income fell 5.1% across the country, meaning our living standards have been smashed

Inflation is set to drop back to under 3% growth by this time next year – if it weren’t for the stage-three tax cuts, that is

We have now had three consecutive quarters of falling GDP on a per capita basis. That last happened 40 years ago during the 1982-83 recession

It’s hard to get excited about Myefo figures when median earnings fell, stage-three tax cuts remain sacrosanct and there are no new measures to relieve cost-of-living pressures

Heading into a year when economic growth is expected to be low, the hope is the Reserve Bank will ease off on raising rates

When retail spending surges, the Reserve Bank can be tempted to raise interest rates – but analysing the economy requires an understanding of what is happening in the real world.

The entire political focus over the past 40 years has been to keep house prices from falling, or even abating

The Coalition will shout about a broken promise. But that argument is unconvincing when you look at the numbers

We might be safe from further interest rate rises but most Australians are still doing it tough and keeping their purses closed

Instead of claiming demand factors are the main reason for inflation, the spotlight should be on companies’ pricing decisions

Negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount were either meant to improve affordability and failed – or their purpose was in fact the opposite

You get the feeling LNG companies love the way Hollywood does business – and the government hasn’t worked out the cheque will never come

But those days of 2020 are good only relative to now, and that’s a rather horrific thought

An overheated property market, education taxes and more expensive healthcare – successive governments have left a bitter legacy for millennials

A 5% rise in award and minimum wages is pretty modest and won’t set fire to inflation or cause interest rates to stay high

Government support for green manufacturing is actually the easy part. To truly reduce emissions, we must stop digging up and burning fossil fuels