Statistics New Zealand’s latest migration data showed that only 13,066 net overseas migrants landed in the country in the ...

A national interest policy process is one in which a well-informed government determines its policy settings via a specialist ...

The Market Ear on the bubble. Nothing is impossible Can the AI frenzy go into total overdrive? NDX now compared to 1999.

It appears that the government-funded jobs printer of the Albo era is slowing faster than the crushed private sector economy ...

This week’s consumer sentiment survey from Westpac revealed that Australian house price expectations are at their highest ...

In last week’s monetary policy decision, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decided to keep the official cash rate on hold, ...

A new report from Oxfam claims that the capital gains tax (CGT) discount and negative gearing are “disproportionately” ...

What we are seeing in many markets today is exactly what I expected to see when I made my 40 cents AUD call a few years ago.

I have just returned from a rock-n-roll thunder tour of the world that took in Tokyo, London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Rome. I have not visited any of these cities in forty years, so the changes were ...

The fertility rate in Canada has now fallen so significantly, that even women in lockdown era Japan were having more children.

In this week’s podcast, we are taking a look at the crushing weight of Australia’s housing market—why affordability is being flattened under rising prices, what’s driving the squeeze, and what comes ...

The ferrous complex remains paralysed by too much versus too much hope. Some Morgan Stanley charts illustrate the point. Steel is weak globally and abundant in China still. We are about to witness the ...