The Reserve Bank knows that wages aren't growing, but doesn't know why, and doesn't know what level of unemployment is needed to get them growing.
Despite the fallout of the banking royal commission, the big banks have led the way in lifting the stock market in 2018-19.
The Productivity Commission warns Australia is continuing its drift into lazy protectionism when it should be standing up for free and rules-based international trade.
The federal election might ensure that jobs growth stays strong for another month — but eventually it will succumb to gravity.
Even with Labor's incoming support, the government's plan to give tax cuts to the wealthy won't prop up a lagging economy beset by poor growth and stagnant wages.
Josh Frydenberg says there are "domestic challenges" to economic growth. The main challenge is one he and his government has created, and it's smashing the economy.
Neoliberals are furious the Reserve Bank wants to stimulate the economy rather than enacting a purge that will inflict pain on workers and households.
As expected, the Reserve Bank has cut interest rates to a new record low.
Australia now has a real productivity crisis. So where's the wailing and gnashing of teeth that accompanied the fake crisis claimed to have happened under Labor?
History will judge Scott Morrison and co. harshly for standing by silently while Trump savages the world's trade system.
