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Voter disenchantment with Labor now focuses on the leadership issue, despite the government’s attempts to focus on education and disability.

Think companies have workers’ best interests at heart? Think again — without unions, corporate profits have soared as workers’ share plummeted. Plus other political snippets of the day.

After 22 years without a recession, Glenn Stevens deserves his new three-year RBA term. It’s been a good run, says MacroBusiness’ David Llewellyn-Smith, but his greatest test might be to come.

Adelaide punters are jealous of all the western Sydney love, plus other political issues of the day.

According to the tone of two speeches by RBA officials today, the central bank is happy to keep the cash rate at 3% for the foreseeable future.

Steady as they go. The markets expect the Reserve Bank to keep interest rates where they are at its board meeting next Tuesday. The Crikey Interest Rate Indicator this morning showed: Time travelling PM. Silly old me. I’m still an Oxford English dictionary man. I thought the PM’s Public Schedule would be a list of […]

In this week’s Crikey Calling, Jason Whittaker and Bernard Keane discuss the political debate over interest rates and what it means for the economy, as well as the latest state of the public service report.

The RBA is likely to cut today, but the return of China to strong growth makes it a more finely-balanced decision than many claim. Crikey’s Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane report.

The RBA makes decisions for all of us, not just hypocritical lending sharks. “Aussie” John Symond should bear that in mind when discussing interest rates.

The usual suspects are on the “Reserve Bank to cut official interest rates” bandwagon again but the market overall is not so sure.

In theory what one government legislates today a future government can repeal some time in the future.

The note printing scandal will likely dominate tomorrow’s meetings between politicians and Reserve Bank chief Glenn Stevens. There are far more important issues to debate, says Stephen Koukoulas of Business Spectator.

Yesterday’s record intervention by the Chinese government to push down rates is the strongest sign yet of a Chinese slowdown. The RBA must pay attention, says Stephen Koukoulas at Business Spectator.

I notice that Kevin Gosper, the most senior Australian member of the International Olympic Committee, has already kicked the blame game along for Australia’s lack of medals.

Australian house prices are not falling through the floor, writes Christopher Joye of Property Observer. In fact, dwelling prices surged back by a strong 1% in the month of June assisted by a tail-wind in the form of the RBA.

It turns out that the RBA has indeed (at least superficially) “misread” the economy, as so many commentators are keen to claim. Christopher Joye of Property Observer on labour and rates.

Forget interest rates, what we should be talking about is energy policy. There is an actual crisis up ahead caused by politics, which must be resolved by politics.

News Limited’s The Daily Telegraph outdid its tabloid brothers and sisters today with its coverage of the Reserve Bank’s interest rate cut (well, its angle was “50 reasons the Big Four banks MUST pass on the full interest rate cut”.

The Reserve Bank’s economics department had a bad year in 2011, and as a result the board is now high and dry with an official cash rate that is obviously wrong. It needs to come down by 0.5%, to 3.75%, next week.