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Our biggest China lie

Three things: China is winning from Gaza; China growing at 5 per cent now is better than China growing at 7 per cent a decade ago; and Australia’s...

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Pearls and Irritations

Michael Pascoe

Our biggest China lie

Three things: China is winning from Gaza; China growing at 5 per cent now is better than China growing at 7 per cent a decade ago; and Australia’s...

thursday 20

InDaily

Michael Pascoe

Our biggest China lie is plain to sea

Three things: China is winning from Gaza; China growing at 5 per cent now is better than China growing at 7 per cent a decade ago; and Australia’s...

01.05.2024 80

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

Negative gearing to change – it’s ‘the vibe’

“There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune” The tide – or maybe call it “the vibe” – is...

26.04.2024 30

InDaily

Michael Pascoe

Michael Pascoe: Negative gearing to change – it’s ‘the vibe’

“There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune” The tide – or maybe call it “the vibe” – is...

25.04.2024 9

Pearls and Irritations

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‘The vibe’ says negative gearing will change

“There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune” The tide – or maybe call it “the vibe” – is...

24.04.2024 70

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

How Barbienomics can help our manufacturing

Despite all the headlines, the federal government might not actually be spending $1 billion on subsidising the manufacture of solar panels – but it...

17.04.2024 30

The New Daily

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Michael Pascoe: Political theatre swamps substance

There is regular reporting of the shrinking primary vote of the major parties almost as if it is a surprise. There is no surprise at all when...

10.04.2024 30

The New Daily

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Seven West Media has even bigger problems than Bruce Lehrmann

It may seem unlikely given the attention it’s received this week but Channel Seven has much bigger problems than the reputational damage resulting...

08.04.2024 10

InDaily

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Seven's got an even bigger problem than Bruce

05.04.2024 10

The New Daily

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Beware unintended consequences of housing reform

02.04.2024 20

The New Daily

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Construction cost inflation control to buoy housing

Try not to get too excited, but there is finally something positive to report on the housing front.  Alas, there’s not a government committing to...

27.03.2024 40

The New Daily

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USA is increasingly protectionist, on both sides

You know the Coalition’s “Labor will kill the weekend” scare campaign about utes and electric vehicles? Donald Trump is up to something similar...

22.03.2024 4

The New Daily

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Facebook & Co, the great tax avoiders

It is frankly hilarious to witness the Prime Minister, lesser ministers and media titans howling over the miserly $70 million Mark Zuckerberg is...

22.03.2024 10

InDaily

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Same old tunnel-vision RBA, blundering on

Same old same old from the Reserve Bank – a captive of the expectations it creates, locked in the narrow vision of its brutally blunt and...

19.03.2024 10

The New Daily

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Politics drives poor policies on Palestine

“Good policy makes good politics” was a Paul Keating maxim. The corollary is that politics without principle makes bad policy. Since the...

15.03.2024 10

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

Facebook & Co, the great tax avoiders

It is frankly hilarious to witness the Prime Minister, lesser ministers and media titans howling over the miserly $70 million Mark Zuckerberg is...

12.03.2024 9

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

Wanted – a government game to try this housing fix

Another day (or week or month or whatever), another series of disheartening and depressing housing stories and statistics, all pointing to there being...

06.03.2024 20

InDaily

Michael Pascoe

Wanted - a government game to try this housing fix

05.03.2024 7

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

Pearl-clutching outbreak over spooks 'spooking'

While chief spy Mike Burgess’ speech about spooks spooking last week was somewhat (unintentionally) amusing, the ASIO Media Unit – alias Nine...

04.03.2024 9

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

Foreign influence is rife in Canberra

01.03.2024 10

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

Conspiracy of stuff up, the RBA review is a crock

The Greens, Peter Costello, Paul Keating, Bernie Fraser and Ian Macfarlane make for an unlikely alliance, but the second-rate RBA review has made them...

23.02.2024 6

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

RBA rate decisions are third-rate, but that’s by design

It was a remarkable Reserve Bank board meeting this month, but not because of anything to do with monetary policy – that remained the inequitable,...

20.02.2024 8

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

Signs look good for Assange, but not Dutton

16.02.2024 7

The New Daily

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The huge money RBA wasted on a ‘marginal’ policy

Remember the Reserve Bank’s $356 billion bond purchase program? Probably not, but it’s costing us $40 billion or so and achieved bugger-all. As...

14.02.2024 40

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

Dutton's party takes another jump to the right

The National Party going the full Don Quixote tilting at windmills this week has been billed in some quarters as a problem for the Liberal Party. Not...

09.02.2024 8

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

No, the headlines are wrong – the RBA is pushing rates higher

While all the headlines say the Reserve Bank decided to keep rates steady, the ugly truth was tucked away in the fine print of the bank’s Statement...

07.02.2024 10

InDaily

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Headlines wrong as RBA is pushing rates higher

06.02.2024 7

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

We can’t rely on developers to fix the housing crisis

If you were running the state suffering the very worst of Australia’s housing disaster, a state where the number of public and community housing...

06.02.2024 9

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Pascoe

We can't rely on developers to fix housing crisis

02.02.2024 10

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

Stage-three tax cuts and more rate hikes

Spare me anyone again asking the Prime Minister or the Treasurer if the stage-three tax cuts will go ahead. They’ve told us and told us and told us...

02.02.2024 4

InDaily

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What’s missing from Treasury’s PR spin

Overshadowed by the politics surrounding the stage-three tax cut changes is the sad matter of Treasury proving incompetent, or so degraded by...

30.01.2024 6

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

For all the talk, public and social housing just got worse

The Productivity Commission has released a damning report on Australia’s worsening public and community housing disaster. Needs have increased,...

26.01.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Pascoe

Lamb shock, but at least Oz Day is right this year

While the culture warriors subject our flag to sartorial abuse and swear our very existence depends on a merely 30-year-old public holiday, it turns...

26.01.2024 10

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

PM’s bumbling politics overshadow policy tweak

To be clear, the proposed adjustment to the stage-three tax cuts is a big improvement on the ideological trap set by Scott Morrison (who?) in 2019....

25.01.2024 80

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

Report shows public and social housing worsening

The Productivity Commission has released a damning report on Australia’s worsening public and community housing disaster. Needs have increased,...

23.01.2024 8

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

The outrage over Gaza deaths – we do it, too

OPINION It shouldn’t be too surprising that the US and its loyal allies Australia and the UK have been somewhat muted in their protests over...

19.01.2024 10

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

Stage-three tax cuts equal up to three rate hikes

16.01.2024 10

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

Michael Pascoe: Why Joe Biden’s best chance is Donald Trump

OPINION It’s always wise to be careful what you wish for. If Donald Trump is kicked off so many state primary tickets that he can’t run for...

12.01.2024 6

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

Councils, approvals not to be blame for housing woes

09.01.2024 6

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

Why responsibility should bless us with results

And so we begin 2024 with a reading from the Gospel of St Luke. (Hang in here – it’s as scary as all hell, so scary the vast majority of...

06.01.2024 90

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

The IPA is taking Gina Rinehart for a ride

It looks like Gina Rinehart is getting very poor value for the millions of dollars she has paid the Institute of Public Affairs. Or maybe not. It...

23.12.2023 100

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

Stresses of leadership continue to take toll

Andrew Barr has boasted that he is Australia’s most experienced government leader, having held his job as ACT Chief Minister since 2014. Nine years...

20.12.2023 10

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

RBA caught snoozing on stage-three tax cuts

Via various Freedom of Information requests, it looked like the Reserve Bank of Australia has never studied, reported, briefed, spreadsheeted or...

19.12.2023 7

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

In a world of war and pain, life is good for some

Watching market reaction over the past two days, you could be forgiven for thinking interest rates are being cut, the rare “soft landing” bird is...

15.12.2023 10

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

Business too busy whingeing to lift productivity

12.12.2023 8

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

NSW gifts more than $5b to horse racing

08.12.2023 6

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

Australia creating national hopeless housing plan

The federal government is developing a National Housing and Homelessness Plan. All indications are that a “National Hopeless Housing Plan” will be...

05.12.2023 8

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

Jim Chalmers must reckon we’re a nation of chumps

Last month’s Reserve Bank interest rate rise is looking increasingly lonely, leaving the board with a tough decision this Tuesday: do nothing, which...

01.12.2023 7

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe

RBA appointment smacks of a cultural cringe

So Jim Chalmers has appointed a fourth-tier executive from a second-rate foreign central bank to be 2IC of the Reserve Bank of Australia, perhaps a...

28.11.2023 6

The New Daily

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