Jason Murphy
Journalist and economist@jasemurphy
Jason Murphy is an economist and freelance journalist. He has worked at The Australian Financial Review and for the Republic of Nauru and the Australian Treasury. He blogs at Thomas the Think Engine.
It’s a great time to have a lower dollar. But we wouldn't want it to stay too low for too long.
The question is: will either of our big department stores succumb to woeful conditions? And if so, who goes first?
Of Google's $4.3 billion in revenue, $3.7 billion is from advertising. That makes it a true monster of hitherto unseen size in the Australian media landscape.
The RBA continues to fail to do what it is supposed to: keep inflation in the target range.
With a small but growing percentage of homeowners owing banks sums greater than the value of their homes, what are the looming risks to the economy?
Pulling in a budget surplus from tobacco excise has knock-on effects that need to be considered
An underground physics laboratory to study dark matter in Stawell? You bet. Visa exemptions for spin bowlers? Absolutely!
The Coalition has tried a couple of sneaky manoeuvres in bigging up its tax cuts in the 2019 budget.
It’s near impossible to make a budget in an atmosphere of such economic uncertainty.
In any other context a report that sums up how Russians influenced a presidential election in his favour would be bad news for the sitting president.