3+ hour, 38+ min ago   (419+ words) 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 Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics…...

5+ hour, 10+ min ago   (100+ words) MacroBusiness Aussie business conditions weakest since pandemic The August NAB Business Survey, which is based on responses from 24 to 31 August, was released on Tuesday, with conditions turning negative and falling to their lowest level since the pandemic as profitability collapses....

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (118+ words) MacroBusiness Aussies driven into working second jobs as mortgage costs bite According to data from realestate.com.au, housing affordability has fallen to its lowest level on record, with households earning a median income of about $125,000 a year only able…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (239+ words) 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 Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics…...

1+ week, 47+ min ago   (79+ words) Australia’s productivity performance: “bad to worse” macrobusiness.com.au Australia’s productivity performance: “bad to worse” Australia’s productivity growth over the past decade has been among the poorest in the OECD, hampering economic and per capita growth and contributing to the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (295+ words) Australia’s house price correction steepened in August. According to Cotality’s daily dwelling values index, which tracks value changes across Australia’s five major capital city markets, home prices declined by a hefty 1.2% at the 5-city aggregate level in August. As illustrated…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (107+ words) Last week’s economic data shook Australia’s interest rate markets. To recap, the policy-relevant trimmed mean inflation printed at 3.6% in the year to July, above forecasts of 3.5%. The monthly and quarterly pace of trimmed mean inflation also accelerated. Australia’s inflation is…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (141+ words) 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 Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (102+ words) MacroBusiness A better solution for labour shortages The business lobby and former Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson have pushed back against suggestions that Australia should cut immigration, arguing that maintaining a strong migration program is essential to solving labour shortages and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (95+ words) MacroBusiness A long, grinding income recession for Australians Australians have been subjected to a long, grinding income recession. The latest OECD data showed that Australia experienced the softest real per capita household disposable income growth in the 11 years to the…...