Poor remuneration practices and incentives played as big a role outside our banks as within them.
With widespread agreement that corporations have grown too powerful, is divestment the best way to curb that power? It's a debate many others are having outside Australia.
Contrary to the clickbait peddlers, there's no property crash. If anything, our financial sector, and the surrounding economy, have become more resilient in recent years.
The Morrison government is stuffing up everything it touches, domestically and diplomatically.
Another quarter, and more bad news for Australia's private sector workers with wage stagnation continuing.
A new global wealth report has confirmed that Australian money is once again going to the wealthy, as our world ranking and GDP per adult continue to tumble.
Once again, a tiny pack of interest-rate hawks at the Australian Financial Review are demanding the economy be crunched in the name of neoliberal orthodoxy.
High petrol prices are the last thing Australia needs from an economic perspective. Unfortunately we're suffering huge swings due to international meddling.
With continuing jobs growth and a commodity price boom, a Turnbull government would have been well-placed to go to the polls and win an unlikely victory.
The Australian's Robert Gottliebsen would have you believe that we're facing a credit squeeze unlike any we've ever seen. Except that we're not, and we've seen plenty before.
