Putin’s biggest mistake? Trusting the Western financial system
The West is arraying financial weapons never deployed before against a country of Russia’s size, forsaking some of the principles that have defined it.
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This pointless $1,080 tax break should have ended years ago – but has become hard to stop
We are about to find out whether we’ll lose a tax break worth up to $1,080 a year.
Lets open up big: economists say we need more migrants
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Australia cut unemployment faster than predicted – why stop now?
If you told someone a year ago unemployment was about to dive below 5%, to just above 4%, they wouldn’t have believed you.
An investment in clean indoor air would do more than help us fight COVID – it would help us concentrate, with lasting benefits
Sometimes the best things you can do are invisible.
Such as fighting cholera by ensuring drinking water wasn’t contaminated by sewage, as happened in London in the 1840s.
Unemployment below 3% is possible – if Australia budgets for it
What’s the boldest thing the Morrison government could do in next month’s budget?
It would be to forecast an unemployment rate below 4% (a rate of three-point-something), then to pledge to go further, to two-point-something.