“In 1999 came the final death knell of housing as a “right”, when it became an investment asset after the Howard government halved capital gains tax”. “The appeal of housing as an ...

Unstoppable gold continues surging today again. As we have been pointing out recently: gold is overbought, but there is room for it to move even higher before we reach the upper part of the ...

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The ...

Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro posted the following update on labour productivity across major advanced nations. As you can see, Australia has recorded zero labour productivity growth since ...

Australia’s manufacturing sector has shrunk to just over 5% of GDP, the lowest share in the OECD. Late last month, federal Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic spruiked Labor’s Future ...

Kevin07 has work cut out for him. President Donald Trump’s plan to impose 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminium imports ...

The Westpac–Melbourne Institute Consumer Sentiment Index is out, with sentiment largely unchanged in February, edging up 0.1% ...

New data from Ray White, published in News.com.au, suggests that property investors continue to flee Victoria following state ...

Steel profitability is just about gone. CISA has solid output to start the year. The main price driver right now is seaborne uncertainty. Several storms across Australia’s north have damaged port ...

A new energy shock is brewing as a cold European winter stalks Australia. European gas storage is falling the fastest since ...

Victoria is the most indebted state in Australia, with the lowest credit rating. Victoria’s net debt is projected to ...