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The billionaire is dealing with falling earnings at his EV-maker Tesla, a fight over his multi-billion pay packet and a stoush with the Australian...
It is clear that the ECB should start loosening quite soon. The underlying situation in the US is more evenly balanced. But the Fed, too, cannot...
On a recent Friday in Canberra, a deflated public servant friend revealed that there were only three people at work on a floor space that can seat...
Any potential adversary knows that a low-risk way to wound a diverse, multicultural society is to pick it apart until it turns against itself.
The new $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund is already doing strange things, including holding its first two board meetings on the same day.
Chinese industrial firms are facing intense downward pressure on their profit margins because they lack pricing power in their domestic and export...
If the budget does deliver policy changes that add to demand, inflation will probably keep falling slowly and stay too high for the central...
One overlooked reason for US resilience is a tonne of stimulus still coursing through the economy.
Even if the chairman now looks certain to survive a substantial protest vote and be re-elected, it all adds up to a firm rebuff of the company’s...
The sudden row between Australia and Elon Musk is a test of sovereign writ against the biggest companies – but also where government control of...
Despite the global tensions and the national gamble on the “Future Made in Australia”, the treasurer is about to hand down another surplus next...
Ideally, the 2024 budget should be slightly contractionary or, at most, neutral to help the Reserve Bank deliver the difficult last mile of...
America and its allies see Russia, China, Iran and North Korea as an axis of adversaries.
Activist battles largely take place between big asset managers and their proxy advisers. Is it time their retail investors got more of a say in...
Even more concerning than the growing size of the invading Russian forces is their increased competence.
The government’s industry policy is not some throwback to the Deakinite settlement. It’s quite the opposite.
The Financial Review helped forge the political and intellectual opposition to the nation’s 20th-century industry protectionism, which was once a...
The existential climate challenge is Australia’s opportunity to reverse the policy settings that hollowed out manufacturing.
The Greens’ cheapening of the purpose of parliament’s power to compel witnesses to appear is too galling for Australian business to remain silent.
Woolworths, Qantas and AMP are among once-loved brands that have faced customer ire. Now they’ve added reputation metrics to executive pay...
If Tehran’s power can be contained and then reduced, the Middle East will be a much more peaceful place.
Murder in Bondi Junction and terrorism in western Sydney have come to a country already demoralised by a cost-of-living crisis. Time for...
We will need to generate only half the energy we do now to replace today’s electricity use, lift the global South, and feed all those data centres....
In total 1131 businesses went bust in the month, which was the largest number since ASIC started collecting these statistics in 1999, writes...
The hard realism of Asian allies about America’s direction must jostle with the return of uncompromising American unilateralism.
It wasn’t just about one rape in Canberra. It is a pattern of male behaviour lamented by all politicians but which continues just the same.