For years, MacroBusiness has argued that Australia’s productivity has been stifled through “capital shallowing”, which occurs when infrastructure and business investment fail to keep pace with ...

Australia’s auction market has stalled, indicating that both Melbourne and Sydney could soon experience falling prices. Last weekend’s final national auction clearance rate of 60.6% was the lowest of ...

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The ...

Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman ...

DXY is up and away: A doddering Joe Biden suggested Israel might bomb Iranian oil fields and here we are. Strong oil is always strong DXY these days. I don’t think bombing Iranian oil fields is ...

Freelancer CEO, Matt Barrie, was interviewed by the Equity Mates podcast, where he once again demolished Australia’s “ponzi scheme” economy and housing market: The interview covers a wide ...

All eyes are on tonight’s US unemployment numbers, aka the non farm payrolls, with some Japanese macroeconomic and political wobbles the only highlight in the region as mainland Chinese markets ...

On Friday at 8:30 AM ET, the BLS will release the employment report for September. The consensus is for 145,000 jobs added, and for the unemployment rate to be unchanged at 4.2%. There were ...

Canada’s economy is a basket case. The biggest migration surge in history has left Canadians with the worst rental crisis in living memory: Canada’s productivity growth is also deplorable ...

Let’s take a walk down memory lane. It is June 2021, during the height of the pandemic. Australia’s borders are closed to immigration. And the NSW Intergenerational Report (IGR) has just been ...