Charts from TME. Skew is a measure of how much investors are worried about the downside versus excited about the upside.

As usual, this is all sound and fury signifying nothing. Grace Tame has stolen the limelight from the very cause she espouses ...

Australia’s rental market has experienced record-tight vacancy rates and explosive rental growth over the past five years.

Caitlin Fitzsimmons, the environment and climate reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald, has written an article challenging the common belief that younger Australians are being locked out of home ...

Australia’s federal budget uses two main deficit measures, and they differ because they treat certain transactions differently—especially asset sales, loans, and off‑budget funds. The headline balance ...

Back in 2022, one week after Albo was elected, I rang the gloriously handsome Andrew “Lord” Charlton and briefed him on the incoming gas catastrophe his government faced. Those words fell into ...

The Pulse’s Ross Elliott has written an excellent article on the administrative bloat that has engulfed Australia’s planning industry. Elliott notes that lawyers he has spoken with told him “they didn ...

We all know that the RBA can’t forecast its way out of a wet paper bag. Yesterday, we got a swag of soft data evidence that it has, once again, nailed the top of the economy with a rate hike. The CBA ...

A new era has dawned in Japan with the reelection of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s government. A Japan that is tough on China and strict on immigration has emerged, one that is unafraid of defending ...

The ferrous jaws may have partially closed, but a new problem is fast emerging: the price of steel amid weak demand. More profitable steel, or less loss-making steel, means more of it and lower prices ...

The ostensible problem with East Coast gas supply is that it has no competition. The real problem is that energy policymaking has no competition, so there is nobody to hold Albo’s energy butchers to ...

Australia is currently receiving a large inflow of New Zealanders. New Zealand citizens are permitted to migrate to Australia ...