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The Latest Articles by Michael Pascoe

Michael Pascoe: Hey RBA, take another month’s holiday. We don’t want another recession

There was plenty in the December meeting board minutes to justify doing nothing on interests rates in February.

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Michael Pascoe: There’s a quantifiable cost to George Pell’s style of climate denial

There are no Pellsian climate deniers in the insurance industry, haven’t been for many years as the dollar cost of climate change is counted.

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Michael Pascoe: Liberal Party unable to be honest with itself, let alone the nation

“If you can’t be honest with yourself, you can’t be honest with anyone.” That little homily is playing out for the federal Liberal Party.

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Michael Pascoe: We now have 26 million reasons to work for a better Australia

I missed a milestone in July 27 – the arrival of the 26 millionth Australian. If you are a baby, you bring promise, renewal and our future

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Michael Pascoe: Echoes of ‘sports rorts’ as NSW rolls out the pork barrel

Dominic Perrottet last year pledged “to support in principle” putting an end to pork-barrelling. The latest numbers put pay to that claim

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Michael Pascoe: RBA on the precipice of its second big mistake

The RBA needs to chill to find out what it has actually done, Michael Pascoe writes.

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Superannuation is no gamble – and there is no place for crypto

So would you like to gamble with your superannuation savings? Go down to the casino and put it all on red?

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Michael Pascoe: The Pope’s a Catholic and forecasting is a mug’s game

The RBA had done all that could be done with monetary policy to fight the possibility of recession/depression from a global pandemic

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Michael Pascoe: From COVID to carbon, the world has simply given up

We’ve had politicians and most of our newspapers and Big Carbon refusing to believe we have a climate change crisis.

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Michael Pascoe: Interest rates won’t work like they used to

The RBA board should be thinking very, very seriously about before lifting interest rates again, Michael Pascoe writes.

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Michael Pascoe: Once more for the dummies – we need higher wages

Inflation is more than double the headline wages growth – wages are lagging, not leading, Michael Pascoe writes.

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Michael Pascoe: Memo G20 – there is a greater enemy than China to fight

Climate change tipping points are a very real threat to Australia, but China is not.

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Michael Pascoe: The budget without reply

Next Thursday the Sydney Liberal Party faithful are being invited to pay $880 a seat for lunch and to listen to a budget reply.

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Michael Pascoe: Albo does a ‘Joshy’ on infrastructure – and everybody falls for it

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Sunday trotted out the good ol’ “billions of dollars for infrastructure” fairy floss.

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Michael Pascoe: Worried about Australia’s sovereignty? Don’t bother, it’s gone

Australia could do its own foreign policy, its own security pacts, but it's too late. Our strategic sovereignty is outsourced to the US

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Michael Pascoe: Morrison heeded the Tooth Fairy when Treasury warned against tax cuts

In 2018, when Scott Morrison announced his tax-cut package, Treasury laid out in black and white the grounds for scrapping Stage Three

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Michael Pascoe: In tough times, we’re still lucky

It might seem perverse, but there’s something reassuring about the markets and so much commentary predicting recession and disaster.

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Michael Pascoe: When everyone knows what’s needed, but none is game

Everyone involved in public policy knows we need some serious tax reform, but there’s no sign of anyone with the ticker to do it.

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Queensland shows the way by moving against cross-border land tax minimisers

Queensland is making amends for abandoning death duties with a plan to rationally calculate and collect land tax on a national basis.

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Michael Pascoe: US is ramping up its war on China

Another week and more shots fired in the US-China war, this time America the aggressor while Australia mutely remains in step.

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Michael Pascoe: Employees may be paying the price for being ‘meek’ and ‘loyal’

Employees are increasingly switching jobs to boost there wages. There is another option that could help get you a pay rise.

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Michael Pascoe: The Governor-General may have some questions to answer about this charity

This is a story about a story that nobody else seems to think is a story. When the story is about the Governor-General’s rather odd $18 million pet

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Michael Pascoe: Beware self-interest driving summit productivity chatter

Productivity growth is a lot like Dudley Warner’s line on the weather – it is a matter about which a great deal is said, but very little done.

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Australia’s problem gambling capital is looking for more pokies, and here’s who profits

You may suspect the last thing a socially-challenged town like Alice Springs needs is more gambling machines, but that’s just what is proposing.

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No accounting for Qantas crying poor, not with its solid cash flow and $3.3bn in the bank

The headlines say Qantas has recorded a loss of $1.9 billion. Yet it has launched a $400 million share buyback and holds $3.3 billion in cash. Go figure

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