A collection of 107 posts
Investor Misha Saul joins Claire Lehmann to discuss Australia’s declining productivity, immigration policy, and the political choices shaping the country’s future.
Every few decades, the ideas with the worst track records come back into style.
An unorthodox survey suggests it’s time for the Australian government to concede defeat in the tobacco wars. Will it have the guts to do so?
Treat a warming planet as an engineering problem rather than a moral failing, and it starts to look solvable.
McKinsey's Chris Bradley on why Australia stopped investing—and why he believes the poorest country in the world could live as well as Switzerland does today by 2100.
Gary Stevenson says Britain's wealth inequality is spiralling out of control. The data says otherwise—and Channel 4 never thought to check.
Fund manager Derek Francis tells Claire Lehmann that Treasury's modelling of Australia's new capital gains tax contains a basic error — one that could push tax rates on shares as high as 70 percent.
China’s ghost cities are like a mocking glimpse of the Chinese century we were told to expect, and for which we are still waiting.
The old fight was labour versus capital. The real fight now is between those who create value and those who administer it, and Australia's new budget has picked the wrong side.
When the appetite for moral reform becomes an appetite for destruction.
Author Quinn Slobodian has won acclaim for his attempt to link the famed Austrian economist to right-wing extremists. But his arguments collapse under scrutiny.
It's not poverty that drives men to violence, but the experience of losing status.
Young women are now outearning young men; this structural shift has consequences that extend well beyond wages.
As an energy shock looms, a new book reframes recession as the product of historical circumstance, not cyclical inevitability.
The German state has been generous to its beneficiaries—but that largesse is becoming increasingly unsustainable.