A new study from the US discredits the argument that corporate tax rates are falling because of countries trying to lure precious capital. Instead, it's because of multinational tax avoidance.
The death of vertical integration continues apace as the Commonwealth moves to demerge its financial advice and wealth management arms.
The real challenge of economic reform revolves around the relative power of corporations and citizens, not the traditional reform narrative of recent decades that has left people disenchanted.
Healthcare and education provided much of the strong jobs growth in 2017, but it's slowed right down this year. Will we see a permanent transition away from these key sectors?
For all the right's railing about community values, they sure do make it hard to live in a community.
This isn't business as usual. Australia is stuck with a "structural" problem of low wages growth, the Reserve Bank governor says.
For young Australians, our economy has been becoming more unequal in recent years -- and that's likely to accelerate.
David Murray's self-interested warnings to the banking royal commission not to go too far would leave Australians at the mercy of a badly warped financial planning industry.
The fiction of privatised competition was simply so diverse functions could be handed over to cartelised oligopolies.
The peak of the jobs boom is behind us. If wages haven't started growing strongly by now, they're hardly likely to do so in coming months.
