Every twenty years, give or take, the British Left rediscovers the wealth tax. They rediscover it with the bright-eyed conviction of a Labrador rediscovering a tennis ball under the sofa, and with roughly the same level of new information.
There is a certain quality of light that falls across the western plains in late autumn, a light my father used to call "the bachelor's hour" because it found you alone whether you wanted to be or not.
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There is, I am told by Senator James Paterson on the wireless this Thursday morning past, a "very grave risk of a capability gap emerging over the next two decades" in Australia's submarine fleet. A capability gap, you understand, is not the same as having no submarines.
Charlie used to say that the most expensive four words in investing are "this time it's different." Charlie was usually right. He was, I believe, wrong about one thing, and the report from RethinkX called Understanding Stellar Energy is the clearest statement I have read of why.
A new Cato research brief, drawing on work by Richard V. Burkhauser and Kevin Corinth published as NBER Working Paper No. 34759, has done what every honest measurement does: it has destroyed a myth.
The lead leader of The Economist on 4 June carried a headline that, twenty years ago, would have been thought editorially impossible: "How to fight back against Gen-Z socialism."
Spare a sympathetic thought for California, the only American state proud enough of its public administration to insist that counting paper takes a fortnight.
The Albanese government has set aside two parliamentary sitting days for the inquiry into its proposed capital gains tax and negative gearing changes.
Australia's economy, once buoyed by post-pandemic recovery measures, now faces a challenging landscape marked by resurgent inflation, a surprise interest rate hike, and sluggish productivity growth.
Ah, Australia. Land of the endless barbie, venomous everything, and a government that treats its economy like a fragile joey in a pouch – overprotected