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How long since you had a decent pay rise?

Politicians complain that voters don't remember the last recession. Maybe they should wonder if they remember their last pay rise?

The revolution will not be trending

The troubles of one website don’t amount to much, but the trouble at BuzzFeed perversely fulfils the site's mission of letting us know where things are at.

Tone-deaf Frydenberg fights the last war

Josh Frydenberg thinks lauding the cause of neoliberalism will resonate with voters — despite his own government turning its back on free markets.

The other super scam: how fees are draining Australians' accounts

In concentrating on underperformance, we're in danger of missing another big superannuation rort: high fees charged by fund managers.

Klaus Schwab, founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (Image: AP/Markus Schreiber)

All aboard for the great Davos rort, taxpayers

Once again the great and the good have gathered in Switzerland for the neoliberal frolic of Davos. But the real message of the World Economic Forum is that we have to accept the dominance of multinational corporations.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

Forget Frydenberg, the housing bubble needs to burst

The housing market is long overdue for some creative destruction. The question is when it will occur.

Business Council chair Jennifer Westacott. (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)

Big business gives the gifts of wage stagnation and credit squeeze this Christmas

A credit squeeze following the royal commission and wage stagnation are two big risks to the economy. Both ultimately derive from the same source.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

Government's bigger health spend is our main jobs and wages driver

The economy will be reliant on health spending for much of its jobs and wages growth over the next couple of years — and the government is increasing it.

Josh Frydenberg and Mathias Cormann deliver the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2018/19 (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas

Cormann holds the line on spending, but wage stagnation to continue

This year's budget update sees extra revenue taking us back to surplus quicker, but workers are still stuck with wages that won't budge.

It's not housing prices that the financial regulators are concerned about

Financial regulators are more concerned about tightening credit than about the housing market.